Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 45

Then one big black cow took up a mouthful of grass directly, with Tom in it, and swallowed it down; without doing him any damage, however.

Who acts: one big black cow · What happens: take up, swallow down, do · To what, where: mouthful, grass, 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 (one big black cow), 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	6 took	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cow	nummod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cow	amod
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cow	amod
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mouthful	det
9	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mouthful	nmod
12	directly	directly	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Tom	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 Tom	case
15	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Tom	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swallowed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 swallowed	cc
20	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 swallowed	obj
22	down	down	ADP	_	20 swallowed	compound:prt
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 doing	punct
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 doing	mark
25	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 took	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 doing	obj
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 damage	det
28	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 doing	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 however	punct
30	however	however	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	one big black cow	a mouthful of grass	then	with Tom in grass; directly, however property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Theme
2	swallow down	past	one big black cow not said here	grass			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	do	gerund	one big black cow 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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