Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 39

Then the booty was apportioned out, but only a ducat was given to the little tailor, for that was as much as he could carry.

Who acts: that, tailor · What happens: apportion out, give, be, carry · To what, where: booty, ducat, little tailor

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 (that, tailor), 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 apportioned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 booty	det
3	booty	booty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 apportioned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 apportioned	aux:pass
5	apportioned	apportion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 apportioned	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 given	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 given	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 ducat	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ducat	det
11	ducat	ducat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux:pass
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 apportioned	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 tailor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tailor	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tailor	amod
17	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 much	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 much	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 much	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 much	cop
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 given	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 carry	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 carry	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 carry	aux
27	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 much	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 apportioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	apportion out	past · passive		the booty		then		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
2	give	past · passive		a ducat	the little tailor			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to tailor=Recipient
3	is	past	that				much property	tree rules
4	carry	could	tailor					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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