Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 66

Watching his opportunity, at last he was able to jump out of the sausage, and right glad was he to be once again in the company of his fellow-men.

Who acts: blow · What happens: watch, be, jump out · To what, where: opportunity, last, sausage, company

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 (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	Watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 able	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 opportunity	nmod:poss
3	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watching	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Watching	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 able	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 able	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 jump	mark
11	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 sausage	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sausage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sausage	det
15	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jump	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 glad	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 glad	cc
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 glad	amod
19	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 able	conj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 company	cop
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 company	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	28 company	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 company	cop
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 again	advmod
25	again	again	ADV	_	28 company	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 company	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 company	det
28	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 glad	ccomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 men	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 men	nmod:poss
31	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 men	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 fellow	punct
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 company	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund	blow not said here	blow's opportunity				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
2	is	past	blow		last		able property	tree rules
3	jump out	to-infinitive	blow not said here	the sausage				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sausage=Trajectory
4	be		blow not said here					tree rules
5	is	past	blow		the company	again	of blow's fellow men	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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