Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 20
Certainly a Goliath like you could creep in with ease, and throw out the coins to us."
Who acts: Goliath · What happens: creep in, throw out · To what, where: coins, us
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 (Goliath), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 creep | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Goliath | det |
| 3 | Goliath | goliath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creep | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 Goliath | nmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 creep | aux |
| 7 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 creep | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 ease | case |
| 10 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creep | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 throw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 throw | cc |
| 13 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 creep | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 throw | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 coins | det |
| 16 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 throw | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 throw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 creep | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 creep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep in | could | a Goliath like you | with ease; certainly property | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ease=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw out | infinitive | a Goliath like you not said here | the coins | us | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coin=Theme to we=Destination |
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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