Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 30

"Be on the watch, some one is after the money," and quite soon, on Tom Thumb setting to work again, they heard very clearly the coins ringing, chink, chank, as they struck one against the other.

Who acts: watch, Tom Thumb, sentinels, coins · What happens: be, set, work, hear, ring, chink · To what, where: watch, chank, one · 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 (watch, Tom Thumb, sentinels, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 watch	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 watch	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 watch	det
5	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 money	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 money	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 money	cop
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 money	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 money	det
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 money	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 money	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 setting	cc
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 soon	advmod
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 setting	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 setting	punct
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	22 setting	mark
20	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Thumb	compound
21	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 setting	nsubj
22	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 money	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 work	mark
24	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 setting	xcomp
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 work	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 heard	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 heard	nsubj
28	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 money	parataxis
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 clearly	advmod
30	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	28 heard	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 coins	det
32	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ringing	nsubj
33	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 heard	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 chink	punct
35	chink	chink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 ringing	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 chank	punct
37	chank	chank	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ringing	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 struck	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 struck	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 struck	nsubj
41	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	conj
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 struck	obj
43	against	against	ADP	_	45 other	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 other	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 struck	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 money	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive			the watch			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the watch			after the money		tree rules
3	set	gerund	Tom Thumb				soon property	tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	Tom Thumb not said here			again		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	sentinels = sentinel				clearly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	ring	gerund	the coins	chank				tree rules
7	chink	infinitive	the coins not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	strike	past	sentinels = sentinel	one			against the other	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent one=Instrument against other=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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