Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 271

But all I got was butter on a live coal, porridge in a basket, and they sent me for water to the stream, and the paper shoes came to an end.

Who acts: I, butter, paper shoes · What happens: get, be, send, come · To what, where: butter, live coal, me, stream, end

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, butter, paper shoes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 sent	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 butter	det
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 all	acl:relcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 butter	cop
6	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 coal	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 coal	det
9	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coal	amod
10	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 butter	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 porridge	punct
12	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coal	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 basket	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 basket	det
15	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 porridge	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sent	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sent	nsubj
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sent	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 water	case
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 stream	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stream	det
25	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shoes	det
29	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shoes	compound
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 end	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 end	det
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past		all butter	a live coal and porridge in a basket			tree rules
3	send	past	all butter	me	the stream		for water	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to stream=Destination
4	come	past	the paper shoes			to a end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_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: «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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