Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 16

So the little fellow continued his travels, and presently entering a thick forest, he encountered a company of robbers who were plotting to steal the king's treasure.

Who acts: little fellow, fellow, robbers, king · What happens: continue, travel, enter, encounter, plot, steal · To what, where: thick forest, company, treasure

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 (little fellow, fellow, robbers, king), 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	_	5 continued	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fellow	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fellow	amod
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	nsubj
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 travels	nmod:poss
7	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 continued	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 entering	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 entering	cc
10	presently	presently	ADV	_	11 entering	advmod
11	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 continued	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 forest	det
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 forest	amod
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entering	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 encountered	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 encountered	nsubj
17	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 continued	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 company	det
19	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 encountered	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 robbers	case
21	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 company	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 plotting	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 plotting	aux
24	plotting	plot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 robbers	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 steal	mark
26	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 plotting	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 treasure	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 king	case
30	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 steal	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the little fellow			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	travel	present	the little fellow not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	enter	gerund	the little fellow not said here	a thick forest	presently property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination
4	encounter	past	fellow	a company of robbers		vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus
5	plot	past · progressive	robbers			tree rules
6	steal	to-infinitive	robbers not said here	the king's treasure		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme
7	treasure		the king			nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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