Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 5

Then the little fellow, desiring to dine once more with his parents, popped into the kitchen to find out what his mother was preparing for his last dinner at home.

Who acts: mother · What happens: desire, dine, pop, find out, prepare · To what, where: kitchen, home

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 (mother), 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	4 fellow	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fellow	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fellow	amod
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 desiring	punct
6	desiring	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fellow	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dine	mark
8	dine	dine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 desiring	xcomp
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 dine	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 parents	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 parents	nmod:poss
13	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dine	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 popped	punct
15	popped	pop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fellow	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 kitchen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kitchen	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 popped	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 popped	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 find	compound:prt
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 preparing	obj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 preparing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 preparing	aux
26	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 find	advcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 dinner	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 dinner	nmod:poss
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dinner	amod
30	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 preparing	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 home	case
32	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 preparing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	desire	gerund				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	dine not said to happen	to-infinitive			with sword's parents	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pop	participle			into the kitchen result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into kitchen=Result
4	find out	to-infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	prepare	past · progressive	sword's mother	home	for sword's last dinner	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Product for dinner=Beneficiary

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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