English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 51

At cockcrow they set off again, but instead of cracking her nuts as she used to do, this time Kate plucked the feathers off and cooked the birdie.

Who acts: nuts, Kate, time · What happens: set off, crack, use, do, pluck off, cook · To what, where: cockcrow, nuts, feathers, birdie

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuts, Kate, time), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 cockcrow	case
2	cockcrow	cockcrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cracking	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 cracking	cc
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 cracking	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	cracking	crack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 set	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nuts	nmod:poss
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cracking	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 used	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cracking	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 plucked	punct
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plucked	nsubj
22	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 time	appos
23	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 feathers	det
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 plucked	obj
26	off	off	ADP	_	23 plucked	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cooked	cc
28	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 plucked	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 birdie	det
30	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cooked	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set off	past	nuts = nut		cockcrow	again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crack	gerund	nuts = nut not said here	Kate's nuts			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme
3	use	past	Kate				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	do	to-infinitive	Kate not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pluck off	past	this time	the feathers			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
6	cook	past	this time not said here	the birdie			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent birdie=Patient

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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