Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 58

The following morning the cow was killed, but fortunately in the cutting up the knife did not touch Tom Thumb, who was put aside with the meat that was to be made into sausages.

What happens: follow, kill, cut up, not touch, put, make · To what, where: cow, Tom, knife, meat, sausages

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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux:pass
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 touch	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 touch	cc
10	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	19 touch	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	16 knife	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 knife	det
13	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 knife	csubj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 cutting	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 knife	det
16	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 touch	obl
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 touch	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 touch	advmod
19	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 killed	advcl
20	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 touch	obj
21	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Tom	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 put	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 put	aux:pass
25	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Tom	acl
26	aside	aside	ADV	_	25 put	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 meat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 meat	det
29	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 made	obl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 made	aux:pass
32	to	to	PART	_	34 made	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 made	aux:pass
34	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 meat	acl:relcl
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 sausages	case
36	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 made	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	past · passive	the cow		morning		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	cut up	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	not touch	past · do-support	Tom	the knife		fortunately property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tom=Co-Theme
5	put	past · passive	Tom			with the meat; aside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
6	make	past · passive	the meat	sausages			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: into sausage=Product

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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