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title: There were two men of Gotham, and one of them was going to market to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were two men of Gotham, and one of them was going to market to Nottingham to buy sheep, and the other came from the market, and they both met together upon Nottingham bridge. Who acts: two men, one, other, Sheep. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tal
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 21

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There were two men of Gotham, and one of them was going to market to Nottingham to buy sheep, and the other came from the market, and they both met together upon Nottingham bridge.

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**Who acts:** two men, one, other, Sheep · **What happens:** be, go, buy, come, meet · **To what, where:** market, sheep

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men, one, other, Sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:33:21
# text = There were two men of Gotham, and one of them was going to market to Nottingham to buy sheep, and the other came from the market, and they both met together upon Nottingham bridge.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Nottingham	Nottingham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	both	both	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	together	together	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Nottingham	Nottingham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | two men of Gotham |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | one of men | market to Nottingham |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | one of men *not said here* | sheep |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | the other |  |  | the market |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from market=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **meet** | past | Sheep |  |  |  |  | upon Nottingham bridge; both, together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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