Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 49
but the sound of the milk trickling into the pail prevented his voice being heard.
Who acts: milk, sound · What happens: trickle, prevent, hear · To what, where: pail, voice
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 (milk, sound), 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 | _ | 11 prevented | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sound | det |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prevented | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 milk | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 milk | det |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sound | nmod |
| 7 | trickling | trickle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 milk | acl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 pail | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pail | det |
| 10 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trickling | obl |
| 11 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 voice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prevented | obj |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 heard | aux:pass |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 prevented | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 prevented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trickle | gerund | the milk not said here | the pail | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pail=Location | ||||
| 2 | prevent | past | the sound of the milk | sound's voice | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | gerund · passive | the sound of the milk not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
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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