English Fairy Tales, VI. Mr. Vinegar., sentence 7

_Remarks_.--In some of the variants the door is carried, because Mr. Vinegar, or his equivalent, has been told to “mind the door,” or he acts on the principle “he that is master of the door is master of the house.”

Who acts: Vinegar · What happens: carry, tell, mind, act, be · To what, where: Remarks, door, principle, master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. 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 (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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carried	nsubj:pass
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 some	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	6 some	punct
5	In	in	ADP	_	6 some	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 Remarks	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 variants	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 variants	det
9	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 some	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 variants	nmod:unmarked
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	aux:pass
13	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Vinegar	punct
15	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	17 Vinegar	case
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Vinegar	nmod:desc
17	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 equivalent	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 equivalent	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 equivalent	nmod:poss
21	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 carried	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 told	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 told	aux:pass
25	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 carried	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 told	obl
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 mind	punct
28	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mind	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mind	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 mind	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 acts	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 acts	nsubj
35	acts	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 told	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 principle	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 principle	det
38	principle	principle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 acts	obl
39	“	"	PUNCT	_	48 master	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 master	nsubj
41	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 master	det
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 master	cop
43	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 he	appos
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 door	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 door	det
46	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 master	nmod
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 master	cop
48	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 principle	appos
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 house	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 house	det
51	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 master	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present · passive		Remarks		because Vinegar Mr.	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic
3	mind in a quote	infinitive		the door			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
4	act	present	Vinegar		the principle		vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on principle=Eventuality
5	is a in a quote	present		that master		of the door	tree rules
6	is a in a quote	present	Vinegar	master		of the house	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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