Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 43

So they threatened they would drown him, if they caught him, and determined to do him some harm.

Who acts: maids · What happens: threaten, drown, catch, do · To what, where: Tom

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), 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 threatened	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threatened	nsubj
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drown	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drown	aux
6	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 threatened	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drown	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 caught	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	nsubj
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threatened	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 determined	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 determined	cc
15	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 caught	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 determined	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 harm	det
20	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threatened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	threaten	past	maids = maid		tree rules
2	drown	would	maids = maid	Tom	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	catch a condition, not said to happen	past	maids = maid	Tom	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	do	to-infinitive	maids = maid not said here	Tom	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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