Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 10
Now, at last, Tom Thumb was really out in the wide world, and he went on cheerily, and after a time was engaged by a master tailor; but here the food was not so good as his mother's, and it was not to his taste.
Who acts: Tom, master tailor, food · What happens: be, go on, engage, not be · To what, where: wide world
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 (Tom, master tailor, food), 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 | 4 last | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 last | punct |
| 6 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 out | nsubj |
| 7 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tom | flat |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 out | cop |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 out | advmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 last | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 out | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 last | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | cheerily | cheerily | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 engaged | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 engaged | cc |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 engaged | obl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 engaged | aux:pass |
| 27 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 went | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 tailor | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tailor | det |
| 30 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tailor | compound |
| 31 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 engaged | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 good | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 here | cc |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 good | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 food | det |
| 36 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 good | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 good | cop |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 good | advmod |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 good | advmod |
| 40 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 last | conj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 mother | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 mother | nmod:poss |
| 43 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 good | obl |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 mother | case |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 taste | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 taste | cc |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 taste | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 taste | cop |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 52 taste | advmod |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 taste | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 taste | nmod:poss |
| 52 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 good | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tom | the wide world | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go on | past | Tom | cheerily property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | engage | past · passive | a master tailor | time | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | the food | here | as Tom's mother; good property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not is | past | food | to Tom's taste | tree rules |
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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