Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 42

But the maids there disliked him, for he was about everywhere, and saw all that went on, without being seen himself; and he told their mistress of their dishonest ways, of what was taken off the plates, and from out the cellars.

Who acts: maids, Tom, that · What happens: dislike out, be, see, go on, tell, take off · To what, where: Tom, mistress, plates · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (maids, Tom, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 disliked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maids	det
3	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disliked	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 maids	advmod
5	disliked	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 disliked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 everywhere	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 everywhere	case
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 everywhere	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 everywhere	cop
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 everywhere	advmod
12	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 disliked	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disliked	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 went	det:predet
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	ccomp
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seen	punct
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 seen	mark
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 seen	aux:pass
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 went	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 seen	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disliked	parataxis
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mistress	nmod:poss
30	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 ways	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 ways	nmod:poss
33	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ways	amod
34	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 mistress	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 taken	punct
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 taken	mark
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 taken	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 taken	aux:pass
39	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 told	conj
40	off	off	ADP	_	42 plates	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 plates	det
42	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 taken	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 out	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 out	cc
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 out	case
46	out	out	ADP	_	5 disliked	compound:prt
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 cellars	det
48	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disliked	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 disliked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	dislike out	past	the maids	Tom			tree rules
2	is	past	Tom			about, everywhere property	tree rules
3	see	past	the maids not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go on	past	that				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	gerund · passive	that not said here	Tom			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: himself=Stimulus
6	tell speech: assert	past	Tom		maids's mistress of maids's dishonest ways		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient
7	take off	past · passive		the plates			tree rules

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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