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title: Now the gentleman got tired of stopping up in the kitchen by himself… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the gentleman got tired of stopping up in the kitchen by himself, and at last he went down into the cellar too, to see what they were after; and there they three sat a-crying side by side, and the beer running all over the floor. Who acts: gentleman, farmer. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» b
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 17

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Now the gentleman got tired of stopping up in the kitchen by himself, and at last he went down into the cellar too, to see what they were after; and there they three sat a-crying side by side, and the beer running all over the floor.

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**Who acts:** gentleman, farmer · **What happens:** get, stop up, go down, see, be, sit · **To what, where:** floor, kitchen, last, crying side

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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, farmer), 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:pg7439:7:17
# text = Now the gentleman got tired of stopping up in the kitchen by himself, and at last he went down into the cellar too, to see what they were after; and there they three sat a-crying side by side, and the beer running all over the floor.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	after	after	ADV	RB	_	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
41	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
48	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	nsubj	_	_
49	all	all	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	over	over	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the gentleman |  |  | the floor | now | tired *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over floor=Destination |
| 2 | **stop up** | gerund | the gentleman *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen |  | by gentleman | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go down** | past | gentleman |  |  | last |  | into the cellar; down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | farmer |  |  |  |  | after *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sit** | past | farmer | a crying side |  | there |  | by side | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Location |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «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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