--- title: Now, one day, when Mr. Vinegar was from home, Mrs. Vinegar, who was… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now, one day, when Mr. Vinegar was from home, Mrs. Vinegar, who was a very good housewife, was busily sweeping her house, when an unlucky thump of the broom brought the whole house clitter-clatter, clitter-clatter, about her ears. Who acts: Vinegar, Mrs., unlucky thump, whole house. A sentence of «E --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Mr. Vinegar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/) / 2 # English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 2 Now, one day, when Mr. Vinegar was from home, Mrs. Vinegar, who was a very good housewife, was busily sweeping her house, when an unlucky thump of the broom brought the whole house clitter-clatter, clitter-clatter, about her ears. **Who acts:** Vinegar, Mrs., unlucky thump, whole house, broom · **What happens:** be, sweep, bring, clitter, thump · **To what, where:** home, good housewife, house, clatter 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 (Vinegar, Mrs., unlucky thump, whole house), 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:pg7439:11:2 # text = Now, one day, when Mr. Vinegar was from home, Mrs. Vinegar, who was a very good housewife, was busily sweeping her house, when an unlucky thump of the broom brought the whole house clitter-clatter, clitter-clatter, about her ears. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 7 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Vinegar Vinegar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Mrs. Mrs. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 Vinegar Vinegar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 housewife housewife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 busily busily ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 sweeping sweep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 unlucky unlucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 thump thump NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 broom broom NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 clitter clitter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 clatter clatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 clitter clitter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 clatter clatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 about about ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Vinegar Mr. | | | home | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | Mrs. | a good housewife | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sweep** | past · progressive | | Vinegar's house | | | now; day | busily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | | 4 | **bring** | past | a unlucky thump of the broom | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **clitter** | infinitive | the whole house | clatter | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **clitter** | infinitive | the whole house *not said here* | clatter and Vinegar's ears | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **thump** | | the broom | | | | | | nom thump «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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/3/) - ↑ back to [Mr. Vinegar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/)