Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 52

They left Trembling at home to work in the kitchen, and told her to be sure and have dinner ready when they came back.

Who acts: rest · What happens: leave, tremble, work, tell, be, have · To what, where: home, Fair, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 left	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Trembling	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 Trembling	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 sure	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 sure	cop
17	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sure	conj
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
21	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 have	xcomp
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 came	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 have	advcl
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 came	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	rest					tree rules
2	tremble	gerund	rest not said here			home		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
3	work	to-infinitive	rest not said here				in the kitchen	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	rest not said here		Fair			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is not said to happen	to-infinitive					sure property	tree rules
6	have	present		dinner			ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
7	come back	past	rest					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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