Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 72
So the fox coughed and set him free, and himself carried Tom home.
Who acts: fox, thumb · What happens: cough, set, carry · To what, where: thumb, 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, thumb), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 coughed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coughed | nsubj |
| 4 | coughed | cough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coughed | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coughed | conj |
| 13 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 carried | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 coughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cough | past | the fox | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | set | past | the fox not said here | thumb | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result | |||
| 3 | carry | past | thumb | Tom | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=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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