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Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 2

However, he was a courageous little fellow, and he told his father, "Father, I am determined to go into the world to seek my fortune."

Who acts: tailor · What happens: be, tell, go, seek · To what, where: courageous little fellow, father, world, fortune · 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

advmodpunctnsubjcopdetamodamodpunctccnsubjparataxisnmod:possiobjpunctpunctappospunctnsubjcopconjmarkxcompcasedetoblmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootHoweverADV,PUNCThePRONwasAUXaDETcourageousADJlittleADJfellowNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONtoldVERBhisPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTFatherPROPN,PUNCTIPRONamAUXdeterminedADJtoPARTgoVERBintoADPtheDETworldNOUNtoPARTseekVERBmyPRONfortuneNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoweverhoweverADV_8 fellowadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Howeverpunct
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 fellownsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 fellowcop
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 fellowdet
6courageouscourageousADJDegree=Pos8 fellowamod
7littlelittleADJDegree=Pos8 fellowamod
8fellowfellowNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
9,,PUNCT_12 toldpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 toldcc
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 toldnsubj
12toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 fellowparataxis
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 fathernmod:poss
14fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing12 toldiobj
15,,PUNCT_17 Fatherpunct
16""PUNCT_17 Fatherpunct
17FatherFatherPROPNNumber=Sing14 fatherappos
18,,PUNCT_21 determinedpunct
19IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 determinednsubj
20ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 determinedcop
21determineddeterminedADJDegree=Pos12 toldconj
22totoPART_23 gomark
23gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf21 determinedxcomp
24intointoADP_26 worldcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 worlddet
26worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing23 goobl
27totoPART_28 seekmark
28seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf23 goadvcl
29mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 fortunenmod:poss
30fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing28 seekobj
31..PUNCT_8 fellowpunct
32""PUNCT_8 fellowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apasttailora courageous little fellowhowever propertytree rules
2tell speech: assertpasttailortailor's fathervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3is in a quotepresenttailordetermined propertytree rules
4go in a quoteto-infinitivetailor not said herethe worldvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
5seek in a quoteto-infinitivetailor not said heremy fortunevn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme

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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