English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 2
Now, one day, when Mr. Vinegar was from home, Mrs. Vinegar, who was a very good housewife, was busily sweeping her house, when an unlucky thump of the broom brought the whole house clitter-clatter, clitter-clatter, about her ears.
Who acts: Vinegar, Mrs., unlucky thump, whole house, broom · What happens: be, sweep, bring, clitter, thump · To what, where: home, good housewife, house, clatter
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, Mrs., unlucky thump, whole house), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 sweeping | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sweeping | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 home | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 home | advmod |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Vinegar | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 home | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 home | cop |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Mrs. | punct |
| 13 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 home | appos |
| 14 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mrs. | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 housewife | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 housewife | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 housewife | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 housewife | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 housewife | amod |
| 21 | housewife | housewife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Mrs. | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sweeping | aux |
| 24 | busily | busily | ADV | _ | 25 sweeping | advmod |
| 25 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sweeping | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 brought | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 brought | advmod |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 thump | det |
| 31 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 thump | amod |
| 32 | thump | thump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 brought | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 broom | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 broom | det |
| 35 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 thump | nmod |
| 36 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sweeping | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 house | det |
| 38 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 house | amod |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 clitter | nsubj |
| 40 | clitter | clitter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 brought | ccomp |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 clatter | punct |
| 42 | clatter | clatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 clitter | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 clitter | punct |
| 44 | clitter | clitter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 clitter | conj |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 clatter | punct |
| 46 | clatter | clatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 clitter | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 ears | punct |
| 48 | about | about | ADP | _ | 50 ears | case |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 ears | nmod:poss |
| 50 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 clatter | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 sweeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Vinegar Mr. | home | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Mrs. | a good housewife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sweep | past · progressive | Vinegar's house | now; day | busily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | bring | past | a unlucky thump of the broom | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | clitter | infinitive | the whole house | clatter | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | clitter | infinitive | the whole house not said here | clatter and Vinegar's ears | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | thump | the broom | nom thump «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: «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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