More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 62

Whereupon he forthwith hired a horse to ride to York, to seek his cheeses where they were not, but to this day no man can tell him of his cheeses.

Who acts: York, man · What happens: hire, ride, not seek, tell · To what, where: horse, York, cheeses · 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 (York, man), 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hired	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hired	nsubj
3	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	4 hired	advmod
4	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hired	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ride	mark
8	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hired	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 York	case
10	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ride	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seek	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 seek	mark
13	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ride	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cheeses	nmod:poss
15	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seek	obj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 not	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 not	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 not	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seek	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obl
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seek	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 cheeses	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 cheeses	nmod:poss
32	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	past	York	a horse				forthwith, whereupon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	ride	to-infinitive	York not said here			York			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to york=Trajectory
3	not seek	to-infinitive	York not said here	York's cheeses					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	can	no man		York		day	of York's cheeses	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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