More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 12

Off went Tom and four men besides, and when they came to the tree they began to draw it into the cart with pulleys.

Who acts: besides · What happens: go, come, begin, draw · To what, where: Tom, tree, cart

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (besides), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Off	off	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 besides	cc
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 besides	compound
7	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Tom	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 draw	mark
19	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 draw	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 cart	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cart	det
23	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 draw	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 pulleys	case
25	pulleys	pulley	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 draw	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past		Tom and men besides		off property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tom=Theme
2	come	past	besides = beside		the tree		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
3	begin	past	besides = beside	the tree not said here			tree rules
4	draw	to-infinitive	besides = beside not said here	tree		into the cart result; with pulleys	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient into cart=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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