English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 42

He went up to the man, and said to him, “Friend, you seem to have a capital pair of gloves there.”

Who acts: man · What happens: go up, say, seem, have · To what, where: man, capital pair · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Friend	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Friend	punct
14	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seem	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 seem	nsubj
17	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seem	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pair	det
21	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pair	amod
22	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 gloves	case
24	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pair	nmod
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 have	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	man				to the man	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past			man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	seem in a quote	present	man					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	have in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	a capital pair of gloves		there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient

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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