English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 38

He walked up and down with his purchase; but it was in vain he tried to play a tune, and instead of pocketing pence, the boys followed him hooting, laughing, and pelting.

Who acts: man, purchase, boys · What happens: walk, be, try, play, pocket, follow · To what, where: vain, tune, pence, man, pelting

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 (man, purchase, boys), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 down	cc
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 up	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 purchase	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 purchase	nmod:poss
8	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 vain	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 vain	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 vain	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 vain	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 vain	case
14	vain	vain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tried	nsubj
16	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 vain	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 play	mark
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tried	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tune	det
20	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 play	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pocketing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pocketing	cc
23	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 pocketing	mark
24	of	of	ADP	_	23 instead	fixed
25	pocketing	pocket	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
26	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pocketing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 followed	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boys	det
29	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 followed	nsubj
30	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 followed	obj
32	hooting	hoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 followed	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 laughing	punct
34	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 hooting	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pelting	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 pelting	cc
37	pelting	pelting	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hooting	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	man			with man's purchase	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	purchase		vain		tree rules
3	try	past	man	vain not said here			tree rules
4	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	a tune			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme
5	pocket	gerund	man not said here	pence			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pence=Theme
6	follow	past	the boys	man			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	hoot	gerund	the boys not said here	pelting			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	laugh	gerund	the boys not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	purchase		man				nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=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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