Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 67
It was not very long, however, that he stayed in this house, where he had been met by so many misfortunes, and again he set forth on his travels, rejoicing in his freedom, but this did not long continue.
Who acts: opportunity, blow, many misfortunes, this · What happens: not be, stay, meet, set, travel, rejoice · To what, where: house, blow, freedom
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 (opportunity, blow, many misfortunes, this), 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 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stayed | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 stayed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stayed | nsubj |
| 11 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stayed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 met | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 met | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 met | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 met | aux:pass |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stayed | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 misfortunes | case |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 many | advmod |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 misfortunes | amod |
| 24 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 met | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 set | cc |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 set | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | nsubj |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 met | conj |
| 30 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 29 set | advmod |
| 31 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 33 travels | mark |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 travels | nmod:poss |
| 33 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 set | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rejoicing | punct |
| 35 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 travels | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 freedom | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 38 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rejoicing | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 continue | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 continue | cc |
| 41 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 continue | nsubj:outer |
| 42 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 continue | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 continue | advmod |
| 44 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 continue | advmod |
| 45 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 long | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | opportunity | however, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | blow | this house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 3 | meet | past · perfect · passive | many misfortunes | blow | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | set | past | blow | again | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | travel | present | blow not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rejoice | gerund | blow not said here | blow's freedom | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | not continue | past · do-support | this | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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