--- title: And the gentleman went on and on, and he went to an inn to stop the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the gentleman went on and on, and he went to an inn to stop the night, and they were so full at the inn that they had to put him in a double-bedded room, and another traveller was to sleep in the other bed. Who acts: gentleman, sillies, traveller. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Ja --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Three Sillies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/) / 36 # English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 36 And the gentleman went on and on, and he went to an inn to stop the night, and they were so full at the inn that they had to put him in a double-bedded room, and another traveller was to sleep in the other bed. **Who acts:** gentleman, sillies, traveller · **What happens:** go, stop, be, have, put, bed · **To what, where:** inn, gentleman, double bedded room, other bed 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, sillies, traveller), 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:pg7439:7:36 # text = And the gentleman went on and on, and he went to an inn to stop the night, and they were so full at the inn that they had to put him in a double-bedded room, and another traveller was to sleep in the other bed. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 on on ADV RB _ 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 bedded bed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 39 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 43 traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the gentleman | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | gentleman | | | a inn | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | gentleman *not said here* | | | | night | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | past | sillies *= silly* | | | the inn | | full *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | sillies *= silly* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **put** | to-infinitive | sillies *= silly* *not said here* | gentleman | | a double bedded room | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in room=Destination | | 7 | **bed** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | past | another traveller | | | the other bed | | sleep *property* | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/37/) - ↑ back to [The Three Sillies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/)