The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 8

When he brought them home to his mother instead of the money she expected for her nice cow, she was very vexed and shed many tears, scolding Jack for his folly.

Who acts: butcher, Jack · What happens: bring, expect, vex, shed, scold · To what, where: beans, mother, money, Jack, many tears

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butcher, Jack), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 brought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 vexed	advcl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mother	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 money	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 money	det
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mother	nmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 expected	nsubj
14	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 money	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 cow	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cow	nmod:poss
17	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cow	amod
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 expected	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 vexed	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 vexed	aux:pass
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 vexed	advmod
23	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shed	cc
25	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 vexed	conj
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tears	amod
27	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scolding	punct
29	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 shed	advcl
30	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 scolding	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 folly	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 folly	nmod:poss
33	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scolding	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	butcher	beans = bean	butcher's mother instead the money	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to mother=Destination
2	expect	past	Jack	the money not said here		for Jack's nice cow	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	vex	past · passive		Jack			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	shed	past		many tears			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
5	scold	gerund		Jack		for butcher's folly	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent jack=Theme for folly=Attribute

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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