Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 14

So she took up the thimble, meaning to catch him, but Tom Thumb hid himself amongst the shreds of cloth, and when she began to search through those, he slipped into a crack in the table, but put out his head to laugh at her; so she tried again to hit him with the shred, but did not succeed in doing so, for he slipped through the crack into the table drawer.

Who acts: woman, Tom Thumb, grasshopper · What happens: take up, mean, catch, hide, begin, search · To what, where: thimble, grasshopper, shreds, those, crack, head

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 (woman, Tom Thumb, grasshopper), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thimble	det
6	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 meaning	punct
8	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 catch	mark
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 meaning	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 catch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hid	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 hid	cc
14	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Thumb	compound
15	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hid	nsubj
16	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 hid	obj
18	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	20 shreds	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shreds	det
20	shreds	shred	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hid	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 cloth	case
22	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shreds	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 began	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 search	mark
29	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	through	through	ADP	_	31 those	case
31	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 search	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 slipped	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 slipped	nsubj
34	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 crack	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 crack	det
37	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slipped	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 table	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 table	det
40	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slipped	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 put	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 put	cc
43	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 slipped	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 put	compound:prt
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 head	nmod:poss
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 put	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 laugh	mark
48	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 put	advcl
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 her	case
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 laugh	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 tried	punct
52	so	so	ADV	_	54 tried	advmod
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 tried	nsubj
54	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
55	again	again	ADV	_	54 tried	advmod
56	to	to	PART	_	57 hit	mark
57	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 tried	xcomp
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 hit	obj
59	with	with	ADP	_	61 shred	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 shred	det
61	shred	shred	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 hit	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 succeed	punct
63	but	but	CCONJ	_	66 succeed	cc
64	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 succeed	aux
65	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	66 succeed	advmod
66	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
67	in	in	SCONJ	_	68 doing	mark
68	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	66 succeed	advcl
69	so	so	ADV	_	68 doing	advmod
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 slipped	punct
71	for	for	SCONJ	_	73 slipped	mark
72	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 slipped	nsubj
73	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
74	through	through	ADP	_	76 crack	case
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 crack	det
76	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 slipped	obl
77	into	into	ADP	_	80 drawer	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 drawer	det
79	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 drawer	compound
80	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 slipped	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	woman	the thimble				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Theme
2	mean	gerund	woman not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here	grasshopper				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	hide	past	Tom Thumb	grasshopper	the shreds of cloth			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient amongst shred=Location
5	begin	past	woman					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	search	to-infinitive	woman not said here		those			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through that=Location
7	slip	past	grasshopper		a crack		in the table	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in table=Attribute
8	put out	infinitive	grasshopper not said here	grasshopper's head				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
9	laugh	to-infinitive	grasshopper not said here				at woman	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	try	past	woman			again		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	hit not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here	grasshopper			with the shred	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with shred=Instrument
12	not succeed	past · do-support	woman not said here					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	do	gerund	woman not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
14	slip	past	grasshopper		the crack		into the table drawer	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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: «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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