English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 45

Then the gentleman went on his travels again; and he came to a village, and outside the village there was a pond, and round the pond was a crowd of people.

Who acts: gentleman · What happens: go, travel, come, be · To what, where: village, pond, crowd

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), 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	4 went	advmod
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	SCONJ	_	7 travels	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 travels	nmod:poss
7	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 travels	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pond	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 village	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 village	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 was	cc
18	outside	outside	ADP	_	20 village	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 village	det
20	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	obl
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pond	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pond	det
24	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crowd	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crowd	cc
27	round	round	ADP	_	29 pond	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pond	det
29	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crowd	obl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 crowd	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 crowd	det
32	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 people	case
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crowd	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the gentleman			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	travel	present	the gentleman not said here			again		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	gentleman		a village			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
4	is a	past		a pond				tree rules
5	is a	past		a crowd			round the pond; of people	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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