Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 64

It was very close quarters, and besides that, the sausages were suspended to smoke in the chimney, which was by no means entertaining, and the time passed slowly.

Who acts: help, chimney, time · What happens: be, suspend, smoke, pass · To what, where: close quarters, sausages, chimney

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 (help, chimney, time), 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	5 quarters	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quarters	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 close	advmod
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quarters	amod
5	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 suspended	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 suspended	cc
8	besides	besides	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 suspended	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 that	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sausages	det
12	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 suspended	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 suspended	aux:pass
14	suspended	suspend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 quarters	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 smoke	mark
16	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 suspended	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 chimney	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chimney	det
19	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smoke	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 means	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 means	cop
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 no	case
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 means	obl
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 chimney	parataxis
26	entertaining	entertaining	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 passed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 passed	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 passed	nsubj
31	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quarters	parataxis
32	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	31 passed	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quarters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	help	close quarters			tree rules
2	suspend	past · passive		the sausages		besides that	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	smoke	to-infinitive			the chimney		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the chimney			by no; mean property	tree rules
5	pass	past	the time			slowly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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