More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 88

The folk were just sitting down to their soup, and the goodwife scraping the pot. "

Who acts: folk, goodwife · What happens: sit down, scrape · To what, where: pot

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk, goodwife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 folk	det
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sitting	advmod
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 sitting	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 soup	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 soup	nmod:poss
9	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scraping	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 scraping	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 goodwife	det
13	goodwife	goodwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scraping	nsubj
14	scraping	scrape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pot	det
16	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scraping	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 scraping	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past · progressive	the folk					to whins's soup; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scrape	gerund	the goodwife	the pot					vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=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: «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.

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