Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 60
"Don't chop far, I am down beneath," but the chopper made so much noise, that he attracted no attention.
Who acts: you, butcher, chopper · What happens: not chop, be, make, attract · To what, where: much noise, attention
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 (you, butcher, chopper), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 chop | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 chop | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 chop | advmod |
| 4 | chop | chop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 chop | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 down | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 down | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 down | cop |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 chop | advmod |
| 10 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 9 down | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chop | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 chop | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chopper | det |
| 15 | chopper | chopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chop | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 noise | amod |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 attracted | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 attracted | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 attracted | nsubj |
| 23 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 attention | det |
| 25 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attracted | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not chop in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | far property | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | butcher | beneath, down property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the chopper | much noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 4 | attract | past | chopper | no attention | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
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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