English Fairy Tales, VI. Mr. Vinegar., sentence 8
In other stories he makes the foolish exchanges to the entire satisfaction of his wife.
Who acts: Vinegar · What happens: make, satisfy · To what, where: foolish exchanges, other stories, wife
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 stories | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 makes | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 exchanges | det |
| 7 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 exchanges | amod |
| 8 | exchanges | exchange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 makes | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 satisfaction | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 satisfaction | det |
| 11 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 satisfaction | amod |
| 12 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 satisfaction | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Vinegar | the foolish exchanges | other stories | to the entire satisfaction of Vinegar's wife | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exchange=Product | ||
| 2 | satisfy | Vinegar's wife | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: of=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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