More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 53

Then he laid down his wallet and took out the cheeses, and rolled them down the hill.

Who acts: gaffer · What happens: lay down, take out, roll down · To what, where: wallet, cheeses

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 (gaffer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wallet	nmod:poss
6	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 took	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cheeses	det
11	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 took	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rolled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rolled	cc
14	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rolled	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	14 rolled	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hill	det
18	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rolled	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	gaffer	gaffer's wallet	then		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Result
2	take out	past	gaffer not said here	the cheeses			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme
3	roll down	past		Cheeses = cheese		the hill obl	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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