Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 3

"Very well, my son," answered the old man, and taking a big darning needle, he made a top to it of sealing wax, and gave it to Tom Thumb, saying:

Who acts: son, top · What happens: answer, take, make, seal, give, say · To what, where: old man, big darning needle, top, wax, 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 (son, top), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 son	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
15	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 made	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 needle	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 needle	amod
18	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 needle	compound
19	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 top	det
24	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 top	nmod
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 sealing	mark
28	sealing	seal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 top	acl
29	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sealing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gave	cc
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 Tom	case
35	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obl
36	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Tom	flat
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 saying	punct
38	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 gave	advcl
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	my son		the old man		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	take	gerund	son not said here	a big darning needle			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme
3	make	past	son	a top		to top	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Product
4	seal	gerund	a top not said here	wax			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Patient
5	give	past	my son not said here	wax	Tom		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tom=Recipient
6	say speech: assert	gerund	my son not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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