Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 35

Then Tomb Thumb went on with his work, and one after another he threw all the coins out of the window, but the very last he sounded and rang with all his might and springing nimbly upon it, so flew through the window.

Who acts: Tomb, one · What happens: go on, throw, sound, ring, spring, fly · To what, where: last, coins, window

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 (Tomb, one), 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	4 went	advmod
2	Tomb	Tomb	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tomb	flat
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 work	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 work	nmod:poss
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 threw	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 threw	nsubj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 one	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	nsubj
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 coins	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coins	det
18	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 threw	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 window	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threw	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 last	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 last	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 last	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 last	advmod
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sounded	nsubj
29	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 last	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rang	cc
31	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sounded	conj
32	with	with	SCONJ	_	37 springing	mark
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 springing	det:predet
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 springing	nmod:poss
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 springing	aux
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 springing	cc
37	springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 rang	advcl
38	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	37 springing	advmod
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 springing	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 flew	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 flew	advmod
43	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
44	through	through	ADP	_	46 window	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 window	det
46	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flew	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	Tomb	the last		then	with Tomb's work	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past	one after another	all coins	the window			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coin=Theme out window=Destination
3	sound	past	Tomb					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	ring	past	Tomb not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spring	might	Tomb not said here		window		nimbly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory
6	fly	past	Tomb not said here		the window			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location
7	work		Tomb					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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