English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 12
Mr. Vinegar could listen no longer; his terror was so great that he trembled and trembled, and shook down the door on their heads.
Who acts: Vinegar, terror, Jack · What happens: listen, be, tremble, shake down · To what, where: door, heads
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vinegar, terror, 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Vinegar | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 listen | aux |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 listen | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 great | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 terror | nmod:poss |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 great | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 great | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 great | advmod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 listen | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 trembled | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trembled | nsubj |
| 15 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 great | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 trembled | cc |
| 17 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trembled | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shook | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shook | cc |
| 20 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listen | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 shook | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shook | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 heads | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heads | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shook | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | could | Vinegar Mr. | long property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Jack's terror | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tremble | past | Jack | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tremble | past | Jack not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shake down | past | Vinegar Mr. not said here | the door | Mr.'s heads | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent door=Theme on head=Trajectory |
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.
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