Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 61
It was indeed a terrible situation for poor Tom.
Who acts: attention · What happens: be · To what, where: terrible situation
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 (attention), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 situation | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 situation | cop |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 situation | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 situation | det |
| 5 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 situation | amod |
| 6 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Tom | case |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Tom | amod |
| 9 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 situation | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 situation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | attention | a terrible situation | for poor Tom; indeed property | tree rules |
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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