Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 65

When winter came, he was taken down for a guest's meal, and while the hostess was slicing the sausage he had to be on his guard, lest if he stretched out his head it might be cut off.

Who acts: winter, hostess, blow · What happens: come, take down, slice, have, be, stretch out · To what, where: blow, sausage, guard, head, hostess

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 (winter, hostess, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taken	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	parataxis
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 taken	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 meal	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 guest	det
11	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meal	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 guest	case
13	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slicing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 slicing	cc
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 slicing	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hostess	det
18	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slicing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 slicing	aux
20	slicing	slice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sausage	det
22	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slicing	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sausage	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	29 guard	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 guard	cop
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 guard	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 guard	nmod:poss
29	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stretched	punct
31	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	34 stretched	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 stretched	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stretched	nsubj
34	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 slicing	advcl
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 stretched	compound:prt
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stretched	obj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 cut	nsubj:pass
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 cut	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 cut	aux:pass
41	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 stretched	parataxis
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 cut	compound:prt
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	winter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take down	past · passive		blow		for a guest's meal	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	slice	past · progressive	the hostess	the sausage			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Patient
4	have	past	blow	the sausage not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Patient
5	is	to-infinitive	blow not said here		blow's guard		tree rules
6	stretch out a condition, not said to happen	past	blow	blow's head			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
7	cut off	might · passive		hostess			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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