Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 73

Then when the father had his dear little son once more he gave the fox all his hens, with the greatest of pleasure.

Who acts: father · What happens: have, give · To what, where: dear little son, fox, greatest

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 (father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 gave	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 had	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 son	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 had	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 hens	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hens	nmod:poss
18	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gave	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 greatest	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 greatest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 greatest	det
22	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 gave	iobj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 pleasure	case
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 greatest	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the father	father's dear little son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	give	past	father	the fox	the greatest of pleasure		then		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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