English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 36
And the gentleman went on and on, and he went to an inn to stop the night, and they were so full at the inn that they had to put him in a double-bedded room, and another traveller was to sleep in the other bed.
Who acts: gentleman, sillies, traveller · What happens: go, stop, be, have, put, bed · To what, where: inn, gentleman, double bedded room, other bed
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, sillies, traveller), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gentleman | det |
| 3 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 on | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 on | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 inn | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 inn | det |
| 14 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stop | mark |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stop | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 full | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 full | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 full | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 full | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 full | advmod |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 inn | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 inn | det |
| 27 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 full | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 had | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 full | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 put | mark |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | xcomp |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 put | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 room | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 room | det |
| 36 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 room | amod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 double | punct |
| 38 | bedded | bed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 room | amod |
| 39 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sleep | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 sleep | cc |
| 42 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 traveller | det |
| 43 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sleep | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 sleep | cop |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 sleep | mark |
| 46 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 bed | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 bed | det |
| 49 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 bed | amod |
| 50 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sleep | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the gentleman | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | gentleman | a inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | gentleman not said here | night | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | sillies = silly | the inn | full property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | past | sillies = silly | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | put | to-infinitive | sillies = silly not said here | gentleman | a double bedded room | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in room=Destination | |||
| 7 | bed | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | another traveller | the other bed | sleep property | tree rules |
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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