Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 17

As soon as they saw the little tailor, they said to themselves, "A little fellow like this could creep through a keyhole, and aid us greatly."

Who acts: robbers, little fellow · What happens: see, say, creep, aid · To what, where: little tailor, robbers, keyhole, us · 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 (robbers, little fellow), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 saw	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 saw	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tailor	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tailor	amod
8	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 creep	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 creep	punct
16	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fellow	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fellow	amod
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 creep	nsubj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 this	case
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 fellow	nmod
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 creep	aux
22	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 keyhole	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 keyhole	det
25	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 creep	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 aid	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 aid	cc
28	aid	aid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 creep	conj
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 aid	obj
30	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	28 aid	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 creep	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 creep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	robbers = robber	the little tailor			soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	robbers = robber		robbers = robber			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to themselves=Recipient clause=Topic
3	creep in a quote	could	a little fellow like this			a keyhole		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through keyhole=Trajectory
4	aid in a quote	infinitive	a little fellow like this not said here		us		greatly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

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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