Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 54
This the master heard plainly enough, but could not make out where the voice came from.
Who acts: master, voice · What happens: hear, not make out, come
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 (master, voice), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 master | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 make | advmod |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 make | compound:prt |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 came | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | this master | enough, plainly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not make out | could | this master not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the voice | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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