Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 44

Then, one day, a maid mowing in the garden saw Tom Thumb running in and out between the blades of grass, so she cut the grass, in great haste, just where he chanced to be, tied it all in a bundle, and, without anyone knowing, threw it to the cows.

Who acts: maid, one day, Tom Thumb, Mistress, thumb, anyone · What happens: mow, see, run, cut, chance, be · To what, where: garden, Tom Thumb, blades, grass, great haste, bundle

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 (maid, one day, Tom Thumb, Mistress), 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	12 saw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 maid	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maid	det
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	appos
8	mowing	mow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 maid	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mowing	obl
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Thumb	compound
14	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
15	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 saw	xcomp
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 running	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 out	cc
18	out	out	ADV	_	16 in	conj
19	between	between	ADP	_	21 blades	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 blades	det
21	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 running	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 grass	case
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blades	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 cut	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	nsubj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 grass	det
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 haste	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 haste	case
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 haste	amod
33	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 chanced	punct
35	just	just	ADV	_	38 chanced	advmod
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 chanced	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 chanced	nsubj
38	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 be	mark
40	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 chanced	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tied	punct
42	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tied	obj
44	all	all	ADV	_	47 bundle	advmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 bundle	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 bundle	det
47	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tied	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 threw	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 threw	cc
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 and	punct
51	without	without	SCONJ	_	53 knowing	mark
52	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	53 knowing	nsubj
53	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 threw	advcl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 knowing	punct
55	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	parataxis
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 threw	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 cows	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 cows	det
59	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 threw	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	mow	gerund	a maid not said here			the garden		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	see	past	one day	Tom Thumb			then	tree rules
3	run	gerund	Tom Thumb not said here			the blades of grass		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between blade=Trajectory
4	cut	past	Mistress	the grass		great haste		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Product
5	chance	past	thumb					vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	be	to-infinitive	thumb not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tie	past	one day not said here	grass		a bundle		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	know	gerund	anyone					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	throw	past		grass	the cows			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cow=Destination

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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