Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 68
Swiftly running across the field came a fox, who, in an instant, had snapped up poor little Tom.
Who acts: fox · What happens: run, come, snap up · To what, where: field, poor little Tom
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 (fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11027:1106): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 2 running | advmod |
| 2 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 running | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 snapped | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 snapped | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 instant | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 instant | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 instant | det |
| 14 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 snapped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 instant | punct |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 snapped | aux |
| 17 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 fox | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 snapped | compound:prt |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Tom | amod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Tom | amod |
| 21 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 snapped | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | a fox not said here | the field | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | a fox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | snap up | past · perfect | a fox | poor little Tom | in a instant | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent tom=Patient in instant=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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