Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 74
"Here, father, I am bringing you a golden coin from my travels," said the little fellow, and he brought out the ducat the thieves had apportioned to him.
Who acts: little fellow, father · What happens: bring, travel, say, bring out, apportion · To what, where: golden coin, you, ducat, thieves, father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little fellow, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bringing | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bringing | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bringing | aux |
| 8 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bringing | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coin | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coin | amod |
| 12 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bringing | obj |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 travels | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 travels | nmod:poss |
| 15 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bringing | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 travels | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 travels | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fellow | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fellow | amod |
| 21 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brought | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | nsubj |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 brought | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ducat | det |
| 28 | ducat | ducat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 thieves | det |
| 30 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 apportioned | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 apportioned | aux |
| 32 | apportioned | apportion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 brought | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 apportioned | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · progressive | the little fellow = fellow | a golden coin | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination coin=Theme | |||
| 2 | travel in a quote | present | the little fellow = fellow not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring out | past | father | the ducat | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ducat=Patient | ||||
| 5 | apportion | past · perfect · passive | the thieves | father | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal |
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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