English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 18
Mrs. Vinegar got down as fast as she could, and when she saw the money she jumped for joy.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: get down, see, jump · To what, where: money
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 (Mrs.), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 got | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fast | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saw | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 money | det |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 jumped | nsubj |
| 18 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 money | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jumped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | past | Mrs. | down, fast property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Mrs. | the money | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | Mrs. | the money not said here | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=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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