More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 113

Once in these parts, and not so long gone neither, there was a fool that wanted to buy a pottle o' brains, for he was ever getting into scrapes through his foolishness, and being laughed at by every one.

Who acts: fool, one · What happens: not go, be, want, buy, get, scrape · To what, where: parts, o brains

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, one), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 was	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 parts	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 parts	det
4	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Once	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 gone	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 gone	advmod
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 parts	acl:relcl
11	neither	neither	ADV	_	10 gone	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fool	det
16	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fool	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 buy	mark
20	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wanted	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 o	det
22	pottle	pottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 o	compound
23	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brains	compound
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 o	punct
25	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 buy	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 getting	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 getting	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 getting	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 getting	aux
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 getting	advmod
31	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 buy	advcl
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 scrapes	case
33	scrapes	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 getting	conj
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 foolishness	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 foolishness	nmod:poss
36	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 scrapes	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 laughed	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 laughed	cc
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 laughed	aux:pass
40	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 getting	conj
41	at	at	ADP	_	40 laughed	obl
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 one	case
43	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	44 one	det
44	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 laughed	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	participle		this parts not said here			long, neither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	a fool		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	want	past	a fool					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	a fool not said here	o brains				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme
5	get	past · progressive	fool			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	scrape	present	fool not said here				through fool's foolishness	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through foolishness=Patient
7	laugh	gerund · passive	every one					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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.

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