English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 57

On this the bird laughed and laughed, and Mr. Vinegar, falling into a violent rage, threw the stick at its head.

Who acts: bird, Vinegar · What happens: laugh, fall, throw · To what, where: this, violent rage, stick, head

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 (bird, Vinegar), 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	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 laughed	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	nsubj
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laughed	cc
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 threw	cc
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Vinegar	nmod:desc
11	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 threw	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 falling	punct
13	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 Vinegar	acl
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 rage	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rage	det
16	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rage	amod
17	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 falling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stick	det
21	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the bird		this		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	the bird not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	gerund	Vinegar Mr. not said here			into a violent rage result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result
4	throw	past	Vinegar Mr.	the stick	stick's head		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at head=Destination

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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