Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 32

But Tom Thumb was too quick for them, he sprang into a corner, and hiding himself behind a coin, so that nothing of him was visible, he made fun of the sentinels; crying "I am here!"

Who acts: Tom Thumb, thumb, nothing · What happens: be, spring, hide, make, cry · To what, where: corner, thumb, coin, fun · 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 (Tom Thumb, thumb, nothing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 quick	cc
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Thumb	compound
3	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 quick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quick	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 quick	advmod
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quick	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sprang	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sprang	nsubj
11	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quick	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 corner	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 corner	det
14	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sprang	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hiding	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hiding	cc
17	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sprang	advcl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 hiding	obj
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 coin	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 coin	det
21	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hiding	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	32 made	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 visible	mark
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 visible	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nothing	nmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 visible	cop
29	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 made	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 visible	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sprang	conj
33	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 sentinels	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sentinels	det
36	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fun	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 crying	punct
38	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 made	advcl
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 here	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 here	nsubj
41	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 here	cop
42	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 crying	advmod
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 quick	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tom Thumb			for coins = coin; quick property	tree rules
2	spring	past	thumb		a corner		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination
3	hide	gerund	thumb not said here	thumb	a coin		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind coin=Location
4	is	past	nothing			visible property	tree rules
5	make	past	thumb	fun of the sentinels			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product
6	cry speech: express	gerund	thumb not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present	thumb			here property	tree rules

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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