More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 81

So he loaded his cart, and after delivering his beer at Wisbeach, he came home and told his master what had befallen him.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: load, deliver, come, tell, befall · To what, where: cart, beer, Wisbeach, master, Tom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tom), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 loaded	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loaded	nsubj
3	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cart	nmod:poss
5	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loaded	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 delivering	mark
9	delivering	deliver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beer	nmod:poss
11	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 delivering	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 Wisbeach	case
13	Wisbeach	Wisbeach	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 delivering	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 delivering	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loaded	parataxis
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	iobj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 befallen	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 befallen	aux
24	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 told	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 befallen	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	load	past	Tom	Tom's cart				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cart=Theme
2	deliver	gerund	Tom not said here	Tom's beer		Wisbeach		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient
3	come	past	Tom				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Tom not said here		Tom's master			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic
5	befall	past · perfect · passive		Tom				tree rules

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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