Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 75
"But how was it that the fox was given all the poor little hens?"
What happens: give · To what, where: fox
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: 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 | _ | 10 given | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 given | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 was | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 given | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 hens | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hens | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hens | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hens | amod |
| 15 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past · passive | the fox | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient hen=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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