More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 55
"I charge you all to meet me near the market-place;" and when the fellow came to the market to meet his cheeses, he stayed there till the market was nearly done.
Who acts: _, fellow · What happens: charge, meet, come, stay, do · To what, where: you, _, market place, market, 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 (_, fellow), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 charge | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 charge | nsubj |
| 3 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 charge | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 charge | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | obj |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 11 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 market | punct |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 charge | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 charge | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stayed | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fellow | det |
| 19 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 stayed | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 market | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 market | det |
| 23 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 meet | mark |
| 25 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 came | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 cheeses | nmod:poss |
| 27 | cheeses | cheese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 meet | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stayed | nsubj |
| 30 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 charge | conj |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 stayed | advmod |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 37 done | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 market | det |
| 34 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 done | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 done | aux:pass |
| 36 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 37 done | advmod |
| 37 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 stayed | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 charge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge in a quote | present | _ | you | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | _ not said here | _ | the market place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | come | past | the fellow | the market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | the fellow not said here | fellow's cheeses | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | stay | past | fellow | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | past · passive | the market | nearly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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