Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 34

So the sentinels kept jumping about, but so cleverly did Tom move from one spot to another, that they were obliged to run around the whole time, hoping to find somebody, until at length, quite tired out, they went off.

Who acts: sentinels, Tom · What happens: keep, jump about, move, oblige, run, hope · To what, where: one spot, sentinels, somebody

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 (sentinels, Tom), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sentinels	det
3	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 jumping	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 move	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 move	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 cleverly	advmod
10	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	13 move	advmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 move	aux
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 move	nsubj
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 spot	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 spot	nummod
16	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 move	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 another	case
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 spot	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 obliged	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 obliged	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 obliged	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 obliged	aux:pass
23	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 move	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 run	mark
25	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 obliged	xcomp
26	around	around	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 run	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hoping	punct
31	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 obliged	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 find	mark
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 hoping	xcomp
34	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 find	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 length	punct
36	until	until	ADP	_	38 length	case
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 length	case
38	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 obliged	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tired	punct
40	quite	quite	ADV	_	41 tired	advmod
41	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 length	amod
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 tired	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 went	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 went	nsubj
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
46	off	off	ADP	_	45 went	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the sentinels					tree rules
2	jump about	gerund	the sentinels not said here				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move	past · do-support	Tom		one spot to another		cleverly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory
4	oblige	past · passive		sentinels = sentinel		until length		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	run	to-infinitive				time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hope	gerund						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	find not said to happen	to-infinitive		somebody				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Topic
8	go off	past	sentinels = sentinel					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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