English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 12

Then after a bit the father began to wonder that they didn't come back, and he went down into the cellar to look after them himself, and there they two sat a-crying, and the beer running all over the floor.

Who acts: father, farmer · What happens: begin, wonder, not come back, go down, look, sit · To what, where: cellar, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, farmer), 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	7 began	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 bit	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wonder	mark
9	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wonder	ccomp
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 cellar	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cellar	det
23	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 look	mark
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	advcl
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 look	obl
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 look	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sat	cc
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 sat	expl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sat	nsubj
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 sat	nsubj
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 crying	det
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 a	punct
37	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 sat	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 floor	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 floor	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 beer	det
41	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 floor	nsubj
42	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 floor	nsubj
43	all	all	ADV	_	46 floor	advmod
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 floor	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 floor	det
46	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	parataxis
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the father			after a bit; then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	the father not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not come back	past · do-support	farmer					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go down	past	father		the cellar		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	look	to-infinitive	father not said here	father		after farmer		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	sit	past	farmer		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cry speech: express	gerund	farmer not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	run	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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