More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 111

So the next day they all went to church, and Rushen Coatie was left behind, to make dinner out of a thimbleful of water, a grain of barley, a crumb of bread, and a thread of meat.

Who acts: nook · What happens: go, leave behind, make · To what, where: thread, church, Rushen, dinner, thimbleful

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nook), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 went	advmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 church	case
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 left	cc
12	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 left	nsubj
13	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Rushen	flat
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	aux:pass
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 went	parataxis
16	behind	behind	ADV	_	15 left	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 left	advcl
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 thimbleful	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 thimbleful	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thimbleful	det
24	thimbleful	thimbleful	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thimbleful	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grain	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 grain	det
29	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thimbleful	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 barley	case
31	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grain	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 crumb	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 crumb	det
34	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thimbleful	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 bread	case
36	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crumb	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thread	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thread	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 thread	det
40	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 meat	case
42	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thread	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	nook	a thread of meat	church	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
2	leave behind	past · passive		Rushen			behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive		dinner	a thimbleful of water and a grain of barley			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dinner=Product

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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