More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 36
Now, as they were at their contention, another man of Gotham came from the market with a sack of meal upon a horse, and seeing and hearing his neighbours at strife about sheep, though there were none between them, said:
Who acts: men, man, none · What happens: be, come, see, hear, say · To what, where: contention, market, neighbours, strife · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (men, man, none), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 contention | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 contention | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 contention | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 contention | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 contention | nmod:poss |
| 8 | contention | contention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 contention | punct |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Gotham | case |
| 13 | Gotham | Gotham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 said | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 market | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 market | det |
| 17 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sack | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sack | det |
| 20 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 market | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 meal | case |
| 22 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sack | nmod |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 horse | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 horse | det |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meal | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seeing | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seeing | cc |
| 28 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hearing | cc |
| 30 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 seeing | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 32 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hearing | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 strife | case |
| 34 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hearing | obl |
| 35 | about | about | ADP | _ | 36 sheep | case |
| 36 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 strife | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 were | punct |
| 38 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 40 were | mark |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 were | expl |
| 40 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 41 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 40 were | nsubj |
| 42 | between | between | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 none | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 said | punct |
| 45 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 46 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | men = man | men's contention | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | another man of Gotham | the market with a sack of meal upon a horse | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from market=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | gerund | another man of Gotham not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | hear | gerund | another man of Gotham not said here | horse's neighbours | strife about sheep | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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