Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 28
The king noticed that his treasure had been disarranged, and soon observed that coins were missing: but he was utterly unable to think how they could have been stolen, for the locks and bolts had not been tampered with, and everything was well fastened.
Who acts: king, coins · What happens: notice, disarrange, observe, be, think, steal · To what, where: treasure, coins, everything · 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 (king, coins), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 disarranged | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 6 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disarranged | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disarranged | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 disarranged | aux:pass |
| 9 | disarranged | disarrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 noticed | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 observed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 observed | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 observed | advmod |
| 13 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticed | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 missing | mark |
| 15 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 missing | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 missing | cop |
| 17 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 observed | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 unable | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 unable | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 unable | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 unable | cop |
| 22 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 23 unable | advmod |
| 23 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noticed | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 think | mark |
| 25 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 unable | xcomp |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 stolen | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 stolen | aux |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 stolen | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 stolen | aux:pass |
| 31 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 think | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 tampered | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 locks | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 locks | det |
| 35 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 tampered | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bolts | cc |
| 37 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 locks | conj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 tampered | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 tampered | advmod |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 tampered | aux:pass |
| 41 | tampered | tamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 stolen | advcl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 tampered | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 fastened | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 fastened | cc |
| 45 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 48 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 fastened | aux:pass |
| 47 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 fastened | advmod |
| 48 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 stolen | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the king | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | disarrange | past · perfect · passive | king's treasure | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | observe | past | the king not said here | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | coins | missing property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | king | unable, utterly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | steal | could · perfect · passive | coins = coin | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not tamper | past · perfect · passive | for the locks and bolts | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | fasten | past · passive | everything | well property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 10 | treasure | king | 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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