More English Fairy Tales, LI. Sir Gammer Vans, sentence 5

_--There is a Yorkshire Lying Tale in Henderson's _Folk-Lore_, first edition, p. 337, a Suffolk one, "Happy Borz'l," in _Suffolk Notes and Queries_, while a similar jingle of inconsequent absurdities, commencing "So he died, and she unluckily married the barber, and a great bear coming up the street popped his head into the window, saying, 'Do you sell any soap'?" is said to have been invented by Charles James Fox to test Sheridan's memory, who repeated it after one hearing.

Who acts: Yorkshire, Henderson, great bear, you, commencing, Charles · What happens: be, lie, commence, die, marry, come up · To what, where: Tale, barber, street, head, window, soap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LI. Sir Gammer Vans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yorkshire, Henderson, great bear, you), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
3	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Yorkshire	det
6	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
7	Lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Yorkshire	acl
8	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Lying	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	26 one	case
10	Henderson	Henderson	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 one	nsubj
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Henderson	case
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 Lore	punct
13	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Lore	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Folk	punct
15	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 one	nsubj
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 Lore	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 edition	punct
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 edition	amod
19	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Lore	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 p.	punct
21	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Lore	conj
22	337	337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 p.	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 one	det
25	Suffolk	Suffolk	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 one	compound
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Lying	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Borz'l	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Borz'l	punct
29	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Borz'l	amod
30	Borz'l	Borz'l	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 one	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Borz'l	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Borz'l	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 Notes	case
34	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Notes	compound
35	Suffolk	Suffolk	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Notes	compound
36	Notes	Note	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 Borz'l	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Queries	cc
38	Queries	query	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Borz'l	conj
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 Borz'l	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 jingle	punct
41	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 jingle	mark
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 jingle	det
43	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 jingle	amod
44	jingle	jingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 one	appos
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 absurdities	case
46	inconsequent	inconsequent	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 absurdities	compound
47	absurdities	absurdity	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 jingle	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 commencing	punct
49	commencing	commence	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	89 said	csubj:pass
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 died	punct
51	So	so	ADV	_	53 died	advmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 died	nsubj
53	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 commencing	ccomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 married	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 married	cc
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 married	nsubj
57	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	58 married	advmod
58	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 died	parataxis
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 barber	det
60	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 married	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 popped	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 popped	cc
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 bear	det
64	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 bear	amod
65	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 popped	nsubj
66	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	65 bear	acl
67	up	up	ADP	_	69 street	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 street	det
69	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 coming	obl
70	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 married	conj
71	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 head	nmod:poss
72	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 popped	obj
73	into	into	ADP	_	75 window	case
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 window	det
75	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 popped	obl
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 saying	punct
77	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	70 popped	advcl
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 sell	punct
79	'	'	PUNCT	_	82 sell	punct
80	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	82 sell	aux
81	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	82 sell	nsubj
82	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	77 saying	ccomp
83	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	84 soap	det
84	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 sell	obj
85	'	'	PUNCT	_	84 soap	punct
86	?	?	PUNCT	_	82 sell	punct
87	"	"	PUNCT	_	82 sell	punct
88	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	89 said	aux:pass
89	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 jingle	parataxis
90	to	to	PART	_	93 invented	mark
91	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	93 invented	aux
92	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	93 invented	aux:pass
93	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	89 said	ccomp
94	by	by	ADP	_	95 Charles	case
95	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	93 invented	obl
96	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	95 Charles	flat
97	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	95 Charles	appos
98	to	to	PART	_	99 test	mark
99	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	97 Fox	acl
100	Sheridan	Sheridan	PROPN	Number=Sing	102 memory	nmod:poss
101	's	's	PART	_	100 Sheridan	case
102	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	99 test	obj
103	,	,	PUNCT	_	105 repeated	punct
104	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	105 repeated	nsubj
105	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	102 memory	acl:relcl
106	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	105 repeated	obj
107	after	after	ADP	_	109 hearing	case
108	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	109 hearing	nummod
109	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	105 repeated	obl
110	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a Yorkshire		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	gerund	a Yorkshire not said here	Tale			in a Suffolk one	tree rules
3	commence	gerund						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	die in a quote	past	Henderson					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	marry in a quote	past	Yorkshire	the barber			unluckily property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barber=Patient
6	come up in a quote	gerund	a great bear not said here	the street				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme
7	pop in a quote	past	a great bear	bear's head			into the window result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent head=Patient into window=Result
8	say speech: ask in a quote	gerund	a great bear not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	sell in a quote	present · do-support	you	any soap				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Theme
10	say speech: assert	present · passive	commencing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic
11	invent	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	Charles					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	test	to-infinitive	Charles not said here	Sheridan's memory				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme
13	repeat	past	Sheridan's memory	memory		after one hearing		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
14	jingle		inconsequent absurdities					nom jingle «event intransitive»: of=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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