More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 21

There were two men of Gotham, and one of them was going to market to Nottingham to buy sheep, and the other came from the market, and they both met together upon Nottingham bridge.

Who acts: two men, one, other, Sheep · What happens: be, go, buy, come, meet · To what, where: market, sheep

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men, one, other, Sheep), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Gotham	case
6	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 men	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 going	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 going	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 were	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 market	mark
15	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Nottingham	case
17	Nottingham	Nottingham	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 market	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 buy	mark
19	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	advcl
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 buy	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 market	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 market	det
28	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 met	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 met	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 met	nsubj
32	both	both	ADV	_	33 met	advmod
33	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 came	conj
34	together	together	ADV	_	33 met	advmod
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 bridge	case
36	Nottingham	Nottingham	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 bridge	compound
37	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 met	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two men of Gotham		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	one of men	market to Nottingham			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buy	to-infinitive	one of men not said here	sheep			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
4	come	past	the other		the market		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from market=Initial_Location
5	meet	past	Sheep			upon Nottingham bridge; both, together property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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