More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 95

And the king's wife said: "And this is what you must make the soup of, a thimbleful of water, a grain of barley, and a crumb of bread."

Who acts: wife, this, you · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: soup · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, this, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 what	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	cop
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 make	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soup	det
17	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 thimbleful	case
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thimbleful	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thimbleful	det
21	thimbleful	thimbleful	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 soup	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thimbleful	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grain	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 grain	det
26	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 barley	case
28	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grain	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crumb	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crumb	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 crumb	det
32	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 bread	case
34	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crumb	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 crumb	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 crumb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king's wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	this		tree rules
3	make in a quote	must	you	the soup of a thimbleful of water	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=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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