Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 27

While the little tailor was engaged in this exciting employment, he heard the king coming to inspect his treasure, so as quickly as possible he crept out of sight.

Who acts: tailor, king · What happens: engage, hear, come, inspect, creep out, treasure · To what, where: little tailor, exciting employment, king, treasure, sight

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, king), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 engaged	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tailor	amod
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 engaged	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 engaged	aux:pass
6	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 heard	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 employment	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 employment	det
9	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 employment	amod
10	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 engaged	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 engaged	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obj
16	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 king	acl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 inspect	mark
18	inspect	inspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 coming	xcomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 treasure	nmod:poss
20	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inspect	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 quickly	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 quickly	advmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 quickly	advmod
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 heard	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 possible	mark
26	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 quickly	advcl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 crept	nsubj
28	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	parataxis
29	out	out	ADP	_	31 sight	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 sight	case
31	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crept	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive		the little tailor	in this exciting employment goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in employment=Goal
2	hear	past	tailor	the king	quickly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	the king not said here			tree rules
4	inspect	to-infinitive	the king not said here	tailor's treasure		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
5	creep out	past	tailor	sight		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sight=Theme
6	treasure		tailor			nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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