Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 38

Tom Thumb, thanking them, declined this honor, for he was anxious to see more of the world.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: thank, decline, be, see · To what, where: robbers, honor, more

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), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 declined	nsubj
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thanking	punct
4	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tom	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thanking	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tom	punct
7	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 honor	det
9	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declined	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 anxious	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 anxious	case
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 anxious	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 anxious	cop
14	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 declined	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 anxious	xcomp
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 see	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 more	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 declined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	gerund	Tom not said here		robbers = robber		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	decline	past	Tom	this honor			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Theme
3	is	past	Tom			anxious property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	more			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

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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