Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 70
As the grocer had only the one sample they began to quarrel so fiercely that the grocer in a fright took to his heels and ran out of the shop.
Who acts: grocers, grocer · What happens: have, begin, quarrel, take, run · To what, where: one sample, shop
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grocers, grocer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 grocer | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grocer | det |
| 3 | grocer | grocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 sample | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sample | det |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sample | nummod |
| 8 | sample | sample | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sample | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 quarrel | mark |
| 12 | quarrel | quarrel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 fiercely | advmod |
| 14 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 12 quarrel | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 took | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grocer | det |
| 17 | grocer | grocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 fright | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fright | det |
| 20 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grocer | nmod |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 quarrel | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 heels | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heels | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 shop | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 shop | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shop | det |
| 30 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ran | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the one sample | as the grocer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Patient | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | grocers = grocer | the one sample not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | quarrel | to-infinitive | grocers = grocer not said here | fiercely property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the grocer in a fright | to king's heels result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result | ||||
| 5 | run | past | the grocer in a fright not said here | the shop | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shop=Trajectory |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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