Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 33
Then when the men hurried to the spot where the voice came from, he was no longer there, but from a different place cried out: "Ha, Ha! here I am!"
Who acts: men, voice · What happens: hurry, come, be, cry out · To what, where: spot, different place · 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 (men, voice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hurried | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurried | nsubj |
| 5 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 here | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurried | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 came | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spot | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 there | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 there | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 there | cop |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 there | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 hurried | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cried | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 cried | cc |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 24 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 place | amod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cried | obl |
| 26 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurried | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 cried | compound:prt |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 here | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ha | punct |
| 30 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 32 Ha | discourse |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ha | punct |
| 32 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 34 here | discourse |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ha | punct |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 here | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 here | cop |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 here | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | the men | the spot | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | the voice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | voice | long, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | the men not said here | a different place | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the men = man | 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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