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title: There was a man of Gotham who went to the market at Nottingham to se… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a man of Gotham who went to the market at Nottingham to sell cheese, and as he was going down the hill to Nottingham bridge, one of his cheeses fell out of his wallet and rolled down the hill. " Who acts: man, Nottingham. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More Engl
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 50

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There was a man of Gotham who went to the market at Nottingham to sell cheese, and as he was going down the hill to Nottingham bridge, one of his cheeses fell out of his wallet and rolled down the hill. "

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**Who acts:** man, Nottingham · **What happens:** be, go, sell, go down, fall, roll down · **To what, where:** Nottingham, cheese, hill, wallet

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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 (man, Nottingham), 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:pg14241:33:50
# text = There was a man of Gotham who went to the market at Nottingham to sell cheese, and as he was going down the hill to Nottingham bridge, one of his cheeses fell out of his wallet and rolled down the hill. "
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Nottingham	Nottingham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
16	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Nottingham	Nottingham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
34	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
41	down	down	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a man of Gotham |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | a man of Gotham |  |  | Nottingham |  | to the market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive | a man of Gotham *not said here* | cheese |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme |
| 4 | **go down** | past · progressive | Nottingham | the hill |  |  |  | to Nottingham bridge *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent to bridge=Result |
| 5 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | Nottingham's wallet |  | of Nottingham's cheeses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of cheese=Initial\_Location out wallet=Destination |
| 6 | **roll down** | participle |  | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=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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