Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 9

Then Tom sprang up on to the hob, and peeped into all the dishes, but over one he leant so far, that he was carried up by the steam through the chimney, and then for some distance he floated on the smoke, but after a while he fell upon the ground once more.

Who acts: Tom, steam · What happens: spring up, peep, leant, carry up, float, fall · To what, where: hob, Tom, chimney, distance, smoke, ground

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 (Tom, steam), 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	3 sprang	advmod
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sprang	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 hob	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 hob	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hob	det
8	hob	hob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 peeped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 peeped	cc
11	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sprang	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 dishes	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 dishes	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dishes	det
15	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 peeped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leant	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 leant	cc
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 leant	nummod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leant	nsubj
21	leant	leant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	parataxis
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 leant	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carried	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 carried	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carried	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 carried	aux:pass
28	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 leant	acl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 carried	compound:prt
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 steam	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 steam	det
32	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carried	obl
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 chimney	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 chimney	det
35	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carried	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 fell	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 fell	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 fell	advmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 distance	case
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 distance	det
41	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 then	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 floated	nsubj
43	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 distance	acl:relcl
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 smoke	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 smoke	det
46	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 floated	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 fell	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 fell	cc
49	after	after	ADP	_	51 while	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 while	det
51	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fell	obl
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 fell	nsubj
53	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	56 ground	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 ground	det
56	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fell	obl
57	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	58 more	advmod
58	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 fell	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	Tom		the hob	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hob=Location
2	peep	participle	Tom not said here				into all dishes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into dish=Theme
3	leant		Tom				far property	tree rules
4	carry up	past · passive	the steam	Tom	the chimney			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	float	past	Tom	some distance not said here	the smoke			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent distance=Theme on smoke=Trajectory
6	fall	past	Tom		the ground	then; while		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location

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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