Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 13

Now there was soon to be a harvest of rye and oats, so the Wise Man said to her, "When you are getting dinner for the reapers, clear out the shell of a hen's egg and boil some potage in it, and then take it to the door as if you meant it as a dinner for the reapers.

Who acts: Wise Man, woman · What happens: be, say, get, clear out, boil, take · To what, where: harvest, woman, dinner, shell, potage, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wise Man, woman), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 harvest	cop
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 was	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	8 harvest	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 harvest	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 harvest	det
8	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rye	case
10	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harvest	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 oats	cc
12	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rye	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Man	det
16	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Man	amod
17	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 harvest	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 getting	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 getting	punct
23	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 getting	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 getting	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 getting	aux
26	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	ccomp
27	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 getting	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 reapers	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 reapers	det
30	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 getting	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 clear	punct
32	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 getting	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 clear	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shell	det
35	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 clear	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 egg	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hen	det
38	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 egg	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 hen	case
40	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shell	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 boil	cc
42	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 clear	conj
43	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 potage	det
44	potage	potage	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 boil	obj
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 boil	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 take	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 take	cc
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 take	advmod
50	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 take	obj
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 door	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 door	det
54	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 take	obl
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 meant	mark
56	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 meant	mark
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 meant	nsubj
58	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 take	advcl
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 meant	obj
60	as	as	ADP	_	62 dinner	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 dinner	det
62	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 meant	obl
63	for	for	ADP	_	65 reapers	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 reapers	det
65	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 dinner	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 harvest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a harvest				of rye and oats	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Wise Man		woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	get in a quote	present · progressive	woman	dinner				for the reapers	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme for reaper=Source
4	clear out in a quote	infinitive		the shell of a hen's egg					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shell=Source
5	boil in a quote	present		some potage				in potage	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent potage=Patient in it=Instrument
6	take in a quote	infinitive		shell		the door	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to door=Destination
7	mean in a quote	past	woman	shell				as a dinner for the reapers	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Topic as dinner=Attribute

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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