English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 22
Mr. Vinegar joyfully agrees, takes the money, and off he goes to the fair.
Who acts: Vinegar, fortune · What happens: agree, take, go · To what, where: money, fair
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, fortune), 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 agrees | nsubj |
| 3 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 4 agrees | advmod |
| 4 | agrees | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 takes | punct |
| 6 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 agrees | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 money | det |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 takes | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 goes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 goes | cc |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 goes | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 agrees | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 fair | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fair | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goes | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agrees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | Vinegar Mr. | joyfully property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | present | Vinegar Mr. not said here | the money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | present | fortune | the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location |
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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