English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 39
Poor Mr. Vinegar, his fingers grew very cold, and, just as he was leaving the town, he met a man with a fine thick pair of gloves.
Who acts: Poor Vinegar, man · What happens: grow, leave, meet · To what, where: town, man
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 (Poor Vinegar, man), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Vinegar | amod |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Vinegar | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 cold | advmod |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 met | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 met | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leaving | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 leaving | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 leaving | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leaving | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 leaving | aux |
| 17 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 met | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 town | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leaving | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leaving | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 met | nsubj |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 pair | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 pair | det |
| 27 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pair | amod |
| 28 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pair | amod |
| 29 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gloves | case |
| 31 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 pair | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Poor Vinegar Mr. | cold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · progressive | man | the town | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | man | a man | with a fine thick pair of gloves | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with pair=Instrument |
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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