More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 50

There was a man of Gotham who went to the market at Nottingham to sell cheese, and as he was going down the hill to Nottingham bridge, one of his cheeses fell out of his wallet and rolled down the hill. "

Who acts: man, Nottingham · What happens: be, go, sell, go down, fall, roll down · To what, where: Nottingham, cheese, hill, wallet

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 (man, Nottingham), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Gotham	case
6	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 market	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 market	det
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 Nottingham	case
13	Nottingham	Nottingham	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sell	mark
15	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl
16	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sell	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 going	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 going	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 going	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
23	down	down	ADP	_	25 hill	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hill	det
25	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 going	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 bridge	case
27	Nottingham	Nottingham	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 bridge	compound
28	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 going	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 one	punct
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 bridge	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 cheeses	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 cheeses	nmod:poss
33	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fell	obl
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 one	acl:relcl
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 wallet	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 wallet	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wallet	nmod:poss
38	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fell	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 rolled	cc
40	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 wallet	conj
41	down	down	ADP	_	43 hill	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 hill	det
43	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rolled	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man of Gotham		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	a man of Gotham		Nottingham	to the market	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location
3	sell	to-infinitive	a man of Gotham not said here	cheese			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme
4	go down	past · progressive	Nottingham	the hill		to Nottingham bridge result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent to bridge=Result
5	fall	past			Nottingham's wallet	of Nottingham's cheeses	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of cheese=Initial_Location out wallet=Destination
6	roll down	participle		the hill			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=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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