Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 1

There lived a tailor who had only one son, and he was extremely small, not any larger than your thumb, and so was called Tom Thumb.

Who acts: tailor · What happens: live, have, be, call · To what, where: tailor, one son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lived	expl
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tailor	acl:relcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 son	nummod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 small	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 small	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 small	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 small	cop
14	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	15 small	advmod
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lived	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 larger	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 larger	advmod
18	any	any	ADV	_	19 larger	advmod
19	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 small	parataxis
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 thumb	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 thumb	nmod:poss
22	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 larger	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 called	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 called	advmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 called	aux:pass
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 larger	parataxis
28	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Thumb	compound
29	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 called	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a tailor	there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tailor=Location
2	have	past	a tailor	one son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is	past	tailor			extremely, small property	tree rules
4	call	past · passive					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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