More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 78

And when dinner-time came, the nasty stepmother sent her out a thimbleful of broth, a grain of barley, a thread of meat, and a crumb of bread.

Who acts: dinner time, nasty stepmother · What happens: come, send out · To what, where: thimbleful, wife

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 (dinner time, nasty stepmother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 dinner	punct
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stepmother	det
9	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stepmother	amod
10	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	nsubj
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 sent	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thimbleful	det
15	thimbleful	thimbleful	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 broth	case
17	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thimbleful	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grain	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 grain	det
20	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thimbleful	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 barley	case
22	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grain	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thread	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thread	det
25	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thimbleful	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 meat	case
27	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thread	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 crumb	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 crumb	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 crumb	det
31	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 bread	case
33	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crumb	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	dinner time						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send out	past	the nasty stepmother	a thimbleful of broth and a grain of barley and a thread of meat	wife				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination thimbleful=Theme

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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