Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 40
So Tom girded on his sword again, and bidding farewell to the robbers, continued his travels.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: gird, bid, continue, travel · To what, where: sword
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 girded | advmod |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 girded | nsubj |
| 3 | girded | gird | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sword | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girded | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 girded | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 continued | cc |
| 10 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 continued | advcl |
| 11 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 10 bidding | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 robbers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 robbers | det |
| 14 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bidding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bidding | punct |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 girded | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 travels | nmod:poss |
| 18 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 continued | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 girded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gird | past | Tom | Tom's sword | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bid | gerund | to the robbers; farewell property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | travel | present | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: 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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