More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 72

So on he went in a melancholy mood till he came to an inn, and the landlord at his door smoking.

Who acts: horse · What happens: go, come, smoke · To what, where: melancholy mood, landlord, inn

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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	_	4 went	advmod
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 mood	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mood	det
7	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mood	compound
8	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 inn	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 inn	det
14	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 landlord	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 landlord	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 landlord	det
18	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 smoking	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 smoking	nmod:poss
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 smoking	compound
22	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 landlord	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	horse		a melancholy mood	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mood=Location
2	come	past	horse	the landlord at horse's door smoking	a inn	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
3	smoke		horse			nom smoking «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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