Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 102
‘I have been in a mouse-hole--and in a snail-shell--and down a cow’s throat--and in the wolf’s belly; and yet here I am again, safe and sound.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: mouse hole
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 (I), 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 | _ | 9 hole | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 hole | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hole | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 hole | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hole | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 mouse | punct |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 shell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shell | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 shell | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shell | det |
| 14 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shell | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 snail | punct |
| 16 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | nmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 throat | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 throat | cc |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 throat | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cow | det |
| 21 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 cow | case |
| 23 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | conj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 belly | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 belly | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 belly | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wolf | det |
| 28 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 belly | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 wolf | case |
| 30 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 here | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 here | cc |
| 33 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 34 here | advmod |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 hole | parataxis |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 again | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 again | cop |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 here | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 safe | punct |
| 39 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hole | parataxis |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 sound | cc |
| 41 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 safe | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hole | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | a mouse hole and a cow's throat and the wolf's belly | in a snail shell | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | again property | 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: «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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