More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 56
Then he went about to inquire of his friends and neighbours, and other men, if they did see his cheeses come to the market.
Who acts: market, men, other men · What happens: go about, inquire, see, come · To what, where: cheeses, market
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 (market, men, other men), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 inquire | mark |
| 6 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 inquire | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 neighbours | cc |
| 11 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 friends | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 come | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 men | acl:relcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cheeses | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cheeses | cheese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 market | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 market | det |
| 26 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go about | past | market | then | about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | market not said here | of market's friends and neighbours | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of friend=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | men = man | market's cheeses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cheese=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | present | other men | the market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location |
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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