--- title: Now, as they were at their contention, another man of Gotham came fr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now, as they were at their contention, another man of Gotham came from the market with a sack of meal upon a horse, and seeing and hearing his neighbours at strife about sheep, though there were none between them, said: Who acts: men, man, none. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, man, none), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:33:36 # text = Now, as they were at their contention, another man of Gotham came from the market with a sack of meal upon a horse, and seeing and hearing his neighbours at strife about sheep, though there were none between them, said: 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 contention contention NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Gotham Gotham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 strife strife NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 about about ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 though though SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 40 expl _ _ 40 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 41 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 40 nsubj _ _ 42 between between ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 46 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | men *= man* | | | men's contention | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | another man of Gotham | | | the market with a sack of meal upon a horse | now | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from market=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **see** | gerund | another man of Gotham *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **hear** | gerund | another man of Gotham *not said here* | horse's neighbours | | strife about sheep | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus | | 5 | **be** | past | none | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/33/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/33/37/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/33/)