Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 62

But being in danger brightens one's wits, and he sprang so nimbly, this way and that, keeping clear of the chopper, that not a blow struck him, and he did not get even a scratch.

Who acts: being, Tom, blow · What happens: be, brighten, spring, keep, strike, not get · To what, where: danger, wits, way, Tom, scratch

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 (being, Tom, blow), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 brightens	cc
2	being	be	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 brightens	csubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 danger	case
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 being	obl
5	brightens	brighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wits	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 one	case
8	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brightens	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sprang	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sprang	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sprang	nsubj
12	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brightens	parataxis
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 nimbly	advmod
14	nimbly	nimbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sprang	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sprang	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 that	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 way	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 keeping	punct
21	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sprang	advcl
22	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 keeping	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 chopper	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chopper	det
25	chopper	chopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clear	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 struck	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 struck	mark
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 blow	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 blow	det
30	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 struck	nsubj
31	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sprang	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 struck	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 get	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 get	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 get	nsubj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 get	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 get	advmod
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 struck	conj
39	even	even	ADV	_	41 scratch	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 scratch	det
41	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brightens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	gerund			danger		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in danger=Location
2	brighten	present	being	one's wits			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
3	spring	past	Tom	this way		nimbly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	gerund	Tom not said here			clear property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	strike	past	a blow	Tom			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
6	not get	past · do-support	Tom	a scratch			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scratch=Stimulus

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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