More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 96

When they all went to church, Rushen Coatie sat down and wept, but looking up, who should she see coming in limping, lamping, with a shank wanting, but the dear red calf?

Who acts: thimbleful, Rushen, shank · What happens: go, sit down, weep, look up, see, come · To what, where: church, dear red calf, limping

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 (thimbleful, Rushen, shank), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 church	case
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
8	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
9	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rushen	flat
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wept	cc
13	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 calf	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 calf	cc
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 calf	csubj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 looking	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 see	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 looking	advcl
23	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 see	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 limping	case
25	limping	limping	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 coming	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lamping	punct
27	lamping	lamp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 coming	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wanting	punct
29	with	with	SCONJ	_	32 wanting	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 shank	det
31	shank	shank	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wanting	nsubj
32	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 lamping	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 calf	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 calf	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 calf	det
36	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 calf	amod
37	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 calf	amod
38	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	thimbleful		church	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	Rushen	the dear red calf		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep	past	Rushen not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look up	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	should				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	come	gerund			limping	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in limping=Location
7	lamp	gerund				tree rules
8	want	gerund	a shank			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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