English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 27

Besides, she was so fond of basting, that when she had no meat to baste, she would baste poor Dick's head and shoulders with a broom, or anything else that happened to fall in her way.

Who acts: business, that · What happens: be, have, baste, happen, fall · To what, where: meat, poor head, way

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (business, that), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 fond	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fond	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 fond	advmod
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 basting	case
8	basting	basting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fond	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 had	nsubj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 had	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 meat	det
15	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 baste	mark
17	baste	baste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meat	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 baste	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 baste	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 baste	aux
21	baste	baste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fond	conj
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 head	amod
23	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 head	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Dick	case
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 baste	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shoulders	cc
27	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 head	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 broom	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 broom	det
30	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 baste	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 anything	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 anything	cc
33	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 fond	conj
34	else	else	ADV	_	33 anything	advmod
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 happened	nsubj
36	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 anything	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 fall	mark
38	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 happened	xcomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 way	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 way	nmod:poss
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fall	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	business			of basting; fond property	tree rules
2	have	past	that	no meat			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3	baste	would	business	Dick's poor head and shoulders		with a broom	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Patient with broom=Co-Patient
4	happen	past					tree rules
5	fall	to-infinitive			business's way		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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