English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 4

On seeing him she exclaimed, “Oh, Mr. Vinegar, Mr. Vinegar, we are ruined, I have knocked the house down, and it is all to pieces!”

Who acts: house, thump · What happens: see, exclaim, ruin, knock down, be · To what, where: husband, Vinegar, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (house, thump), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 seeing	mark
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 exclaimed	advcl
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seeing	obj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exclaimed	nsubj
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ruined	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 ruined	punct
8	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 Vinegar	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Oh	punct
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Vinegar	nmod:desc
11	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ruined	nsubj:pass
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Vinegar	punct
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Vinegar	nmod:desc
14	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Vinegar	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ruined	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ruined	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ruined	aux:pass
18	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 exclaimed	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knocked	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 knocked	nsubj:pass
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 knocked	aux
22	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ruined	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knocked	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	22 knocked	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pieces	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pieces	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pieces	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 pieces	cop
30	all	all	ADV	_	32 pieces	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 pieces	case
32	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 exclaimed	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 pieces	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	house not said here	husband		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	exclaim speech: express	past	house			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ruin in a quote	present · passive		Vinegar Mr. and Vinegar Mr.		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	knock down in a quote	present · perfect · passive		house		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination house=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	thump		to pieces; all property	tree rules

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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