English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 2

And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat.

Who acts: pies, crusts · What happens: come out, be, eat · To what, where: oven

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pies, crusts), 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	_	13 overbaked	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 overbaked	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 oven	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 oven	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oven	det
8	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 overbaked	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 overbaked	cop
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 overbaked	nsubj
13	overbaked	overbak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crusts	det
15	crusts	crust	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 overbaked	obj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hard	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 hard	advmod
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crusts	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hard	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 overbaked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come out	past	pies = pie	the oven		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient oven=Result
2	is	past	pies = pie		overbak property	tree rules
3	is	past	the crusts not said here		hard property	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	the crusts not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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