English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 54

As he drew near to the wood where he had left his wife, he heard a parrot on a tree calling out his name: “Mr. Vinegar, you foolish man, you blockhead, you simpleton; you went to the fair, and laid out all your money in buying a cow.

Who acts: man, you · What happens: draw, leave, hear, call out, man, blockhead · To what, where: wood, wife, parrot, tree, name, money · 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, you), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	advcl
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 left	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 wood	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 parrot	det
18	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obl
22	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 heard	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 calling	compound:prt
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 name	nmod:poss
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 calling	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Vinegar	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Vinegar	punct
28	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Vinegar	nmod:desc
29	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 heard	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 man	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 man	nsubj
32	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Vinegar	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 blockhead	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 blockhead	nsubj
36	blockhead	blockhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Vinegar	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 simpleton	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 simpleton	nsubj
39	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Vinegar	conj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 went	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 went	nsubj
42	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 fair	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fair	det
45	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 went	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 laid	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 laid	cc
48	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 went	conj
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 laid	compound:prt
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 money	det:predet
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 money	nmod:poss
52	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 went	obl
53	in	in	SCONJ	_	54 buying	mark
54	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 went	advcl
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 cow	det
56	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 buying	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	man		the wood	near property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to wood=Destination
2	leave	past · perfect	man	man's wife			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
3	hear	past	man	a parrot	a tree		tree rules
4	call out speech: assert	gerund	man not said here	man's name			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
5	man in a quote		you				tree rules
6	blockhead in a quote		you				tree rules
7	simpleton in a quote		you				tree rules
8	go in a quote	past	you	your money	the fair		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location
9	lay out in a quote	participle	you not said here				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	buy in a quote	gerund	you not said here	a cow			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
11	name		man				nom name «communication 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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