Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 23

He was for going in directly, but one of the sentinels happening to catch sight of him, exclaimed: "Here is indeed an ugly spider; I will crush it with my foot."

Who acts: Tom, sentinels, one, I · What happens: go in, happen, catch, exclaim, be, crush · To what, where: sight, ugly spider, Tom · 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 (Tom, sentinels, one, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 spider	advcl
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	directly	directly	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 exclaimed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 exclaimed	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 exclaimed	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sentinels	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sentinels	det
12	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sentinels	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 catch	mark
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 happening	advcl
16	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 catch	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sight	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 exclaimed	punct
20	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Here	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Here	punct
23	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 exclaimed	advmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 spider	cop
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	28 spider	advmod
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 spider	det
27	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spider	amod
28	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 crush	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 crush	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 crush	aux
32	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 spider	acl:relcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 crush	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 foot	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 foot	nmod:poss
36	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crush	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 spider	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 spider	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in	past · progressive	Tom			directly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	gerund	the sentinels not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	to-infinitive	the sentinels not said here	sight of Tom			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
4	exclaim speech: express	past	one of the sentinels		here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		a ugly spider		indeed property	tree rules
6	crush in a quote	future	I	sight		with my foot	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument
7	sight			Tom			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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