Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 26
Then he opened the window, and cast out the coins to the robbers who were waiting below.
Who acts: Tom, robbers · What happens: open, cast out, wait · To what, where: window, coins, robbers
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, robbers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cast | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cast | cc |
| 8 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 opened | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cast | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coins | det |
| 11 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cast | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 robbers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 robbers | det |
| 14 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 coins | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 waiting | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 waiting | aux |
| 17 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 robbers | acl:relcl |
| 18 | below | below | ADV | _ | 17 waiting | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Tom | the window | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | |||
| 2 | cast out | participle | Tom not said here | the coins | the robbers | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coin=Theme to robber=Destination | |||
| 3 | wait | past · progressive | the robbers | below property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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