Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 46
But Tom did not approve of his position, for it was pitch dark down there, with no light burning.
Who acts: Tom, position, light · What happens: not approve, be, burn
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, position, light), 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 approve | cc |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 approve | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 approve | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 approve | advmod |
| 5 | approve | approve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 position | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 position | nmod:poss |
| 8 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 approve | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dark | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 dark | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dark | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dark | cop |
| 13 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dark | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 approve | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 there | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 dark | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 burning | punct |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 21 burning | mark |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 light | det |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burning | nsubj |
| 21 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 approve | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 approve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not approve | past · do-support | Tom | of Tom's position | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | position | pitch obl:unmarked; dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | no light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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