English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 17

Now the gentleman got tired of stopping up in the kitchen by himself, and at last he went down into the cellar too, to see what they were after; and there they three sat a-crying side by side, and the beer running all over the floor.

Who acts: gentleman, farmer · What happens: get, stop up, go down, see, be, sit · To what, where: floor, kitchen, last, crying side

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 (gentleman, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gentleman	det
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 tired	obl
7	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 got	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 stopping	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 kitchen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kitchen	det
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stopping	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 stopping	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 went	obl
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	4 got	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	too	too	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 see	obj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 after	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 after	cop
31	after	after	ADV	_	28 what	acl:relcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sat	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sat	cc
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 sat	expl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sat	nsubj
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 sat	nsubj
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 side	det
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 a	punct
40	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 side	amod
41	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sat	obj
42	by	by	ADP	_	43 side	case
43	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sat	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 floor	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 floor	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 beer	det
47	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 floor	nsubj
48	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 floor	nsubj
49	all	all	ADV	_	52 floor	advmod
50	over	over	ADP	_	52 floor	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 floor	det
52	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the gentleman		the floor	now	tired property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over floor=Destination
2	stop up	gerund	the gentleman not said here		the kitchen		by gentleman	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	go down	past	gentleman		last		into the cellar; down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	see	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	is	past	farmer				after property	tree rules
6	sit	past	farmer	a crying side	there		by side	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Location
7	cry speech: express	gerund						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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