Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 100

‘Yes, father,’ answered he; ‘I have travelled all over the world, I think, in one way or other, since we parted; and now I am very glad to come home and get fresh air again.’

Who acts: father, I, we · What happens: answer, travell, think, part, be, come · To what, where: fear, world, one way, fresh air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 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, I, we), 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answered	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 travelled	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 travelled	aux
13	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 answered	conj
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 world	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 think	nsubj
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 travelled	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 way	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 way	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 way	nummod
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 think	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 other	cc
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 way	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 parted	punct
28	since	since	SCONJ	_	30 parted	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 parted	nsubj
30	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 think	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 glad	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 glad	cc
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 glad	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 glad	nsubj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 glad	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 glad	advmod
37	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answered	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 come	mark
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 glad	xcomp
40	home	home	ADV	_	39 come	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 get	cc
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 come	conj
43	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 air	amod
44	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	obj
45	again	again	ADV	_	42 get	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 glad	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	father		fear				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	travell	present · perfect	I			the world			tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	I			one way			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	part	past	we						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	is	present	I				now	glad property	tree rules
6	come	to-infinitive	I not said here					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get	infinitive	I not said here	fresh air			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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