Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 41

He tried to get work under various masters, but they would have nothing to do with him, so after a while he took service at an inn.

Who acts: Tom, masters · What happens: try, get, have, do, take · To what, where: work, various masters, nothing, service, inn

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, masters), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 masters	case
7	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 masters	amod
8	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 have	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nothing	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	25 took	advmod
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 while	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 while	det
23	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
26	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 inn	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 inn	det
29	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Tom					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	work	various masters			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus
3	have	would	masters = master	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	masters = master not said here	nothing not said here			with Tom	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	past	Tom	service	a inn	while		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent service=Theme at inn=Asset

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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