More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 64

When Good Friday came, the men of Gotham cast their heads together what to do with their white herrings, their red herrings, their sprats, and other salt fish.

Who acts: Good Friday, men · What happens: come, cast, do · To what, where: heads

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good Friday, men), 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	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Friday	amod
3	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cast	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cast	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Gotham	case
9	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 men	nmod
10	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heads	nmod:poss
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cast	obj
13	together	together	ADV	_	10 cast	advmod
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cast	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 herrings	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 herrings	nmod:poss
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 herrings	amod
20	herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 herrings	punct
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 herrings	nmod:poss
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 herrings	amod
24	herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 herrings	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sprats	punct
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sprats	nmod:poss
27	sprats	sprat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 herrings	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fish	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fish	cc
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fish	amod
31	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fish	compound
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cast	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Good Friday			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cast	past	the men of Gotham	men's heads	other salt fish obl; together property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Product
3	do	to-infinitive	the men of Gotham not said here		with men's white herrings and men's red herrings and men's sprats	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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