English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 26

Why he went about from stall to stall taking up things from each, here some fruit, and there some eggs, and so on; and no one seemed to take any notice.

Who acts: fellow, one · What happens: go about, stall, take up, seem, take · To what, where: eggs, stall, things, each, notice

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, one), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	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	from	from	ADP	_	6 stall	case
6	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stall	mark
8	stall	stall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
9	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 taking	compound:prt
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taking	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 each	case
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 taking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 taking	advmod
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 fruit	det
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 here	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eggs	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eggs	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 some	expl
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 eggs	det
22	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 on	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 on	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 on	advmod
26	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 seemed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seemed	cc
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seemed	nsubj
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 take	mark
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seemed	xcomp
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 notice	det
35	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go about	past	fellow	some eggs	stall	about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stall	to-infinitive	fellow not said here				vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take up	gerund	fellow not said here	things	each; here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from each=Initial_Location
4	seem	past	no one				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	take	to-infinitive	no one not said here	any notice			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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