Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 31
As quickly as possible they unfastened the building and went in, hoping to take the thief.
Who acts: coins · What happens: unfasten, go in, hope, take · To what, where: building, thief
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 (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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 quickly | advmod |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 unfastened | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 possible | mark |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 quickly | advcl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 unfastened | nsubj |
| 6 | unfastened | unfasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 building | det |
| 8 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unfastened | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unfastened | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoping | punct |
| 13 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hoping | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thief | det |
| 17 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unfastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfasten | past | coins = coin | the building | quickly property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=Patient | |||
| 2 | go in | past | coins = coin not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | coins = coin not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | coins = coin not said here | the thief | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=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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