Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 21
After considering awhile, Tom Thumb consented, and accompanied them to the king's treasury.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: consider, consent, accompany · To what, where: coins, treasury
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 (Tom), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 considering | mark |
| 2 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 consented | advcl |
| 3 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 2 considering | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 considering | punct |
| 5 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 consented | nsubj |
| 6 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tom | flat |
| 7 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 accompanied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 accompanied | cc |
| 10 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 consented | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 accompanied | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 treasury | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accompanied | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | gerund | Tom not said here | awhile property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | consent | past | Tom | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | accompany | past | Tom not said here | coins = coin | the king's treasury | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to treasury=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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