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Sir Gammer Vans, sentence 5 \_--There is a Yorkshire Lying Tale in Henderson's \_Folk-Lore\_, first edition, p. 337, a Suffolk one, "Happy Borz'l," in \_Suffolk Notes and Queries\_, while a similar jingle of inconsequent absurdities, commencing "So he died, and she unluckily married the barber, and a great bear coming up the street popped his head into the window, saying, 'Do you sell any soap'?" is said to have been invented by Charles James Fox to test Sheridan's memory, who repeated it after one hearing. **Who acts:** Yorkshire, Henderson, great bear, you, commencing, Charles · **What happens:** be, lie, commence, die, marry, come up · **To what, where:** Tale, barber, street, head, window, soap · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LI. Sir Gammer Vans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yorkshire, Henderson, great bear, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:42:5 # text = _--There is a Yorkshire Lying Tale in Henderson's _Folk-Lore_, first edition, p. 337, a Suffolk one, "Happy Borz'l," in _Suffolk Notes and Queries_, while a similar jingle of inconsequent absurdities, commencing "So he died, and she unluckily married the barber, and a great bear coming up the street popped his head into the window, saying, 'Do you sell any soap'?" is said to have been invented by Charles James Fox to test Sheridan's memory, who repeated it after one hearing. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 -- -- PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 4 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Yorkshire Yorkshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 7 Lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 Tale Tale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 10 Henderson Henderson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Lore Lore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 edition edition NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 p. 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PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 22 337 337 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Suffolk Suffolk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Borz'l Borz'l PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Suffolk Suffolk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Notes Note PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 Queries query NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 while while SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 jingle jingle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 inconsequent inconsequent NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 absurdities absurdity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 commencing commence VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 89 csubj:pass _ _ 50 " " PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 So so ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 52 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 56 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 57 unluckily unluckily ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 married marry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 parataxis _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 barber barber NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 70 cc _ _ 63 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nsubj _ _ 66 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 65 acl _ _ 67 up up ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl _ _ 70 popped pop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 conj _ _ 71 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 72 nmod:poss _ _ 72 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 obj _ _ 73 into into ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 74 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 75 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 76 , , PUNCT , _ 77 punct _ _ 77 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 70 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 78 , , PUNCT , _ 82 punct _ _ 79 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 82 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 80 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 82 aux _ _ 81 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 82 nsubj _ _ 82 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 77 ccomp _ _ 83 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 84 det _ _ 84 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 82 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 85 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 84 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 86 ? ? 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PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | a Yorkshire | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | a Yorkshire *not said here* | Tale | | | | in a Suffolk one | tree rules | | 3 | **commence** | gerund | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **die** *in a quote* | past | Henderson | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **marry** *in a quote* | past | Yorkshire | the barber | | | | unluckily *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barber=Patient | | 6 | **come up** *in a quote* | gerund | a great bear *not said here* | the street | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme | | 7 | **pop** *in a quote* | past | a great bear | bear's head | | | | into the window *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent head=Patient into window=Result | | 8 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund | a great bear *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **sell** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | any soap | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Theme | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | commencing | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Topic | | 11 | **invent** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | Charles | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **test** | to-infinitive | Charles *not said here* | Sheridan's memory | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | | 13 | **repeat** | past | Sheridan's memory | memory | | | after one hearing | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 14 | **jingle** | | inconsequent absurdities | | | | | | nom jingle «event intransitive»: of=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/6/) - ↑ back to [LI. 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