Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 104
Then they hugged and kissed their dear little son, and gave him plenty to eat and drink, for he was very hungry; and then they fetched new clothes for him, for his old ones had been quite spoiled on his journey.
Who acts: cows, father · What happens: hug, kiss, give, eat, drink, be · To what, where: dear little son, plenty, father, new clothes, old ones, journey
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 (cows, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hugged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hugged | nsubj |
| 3 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kissed | cc |
| 5 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hugged | conj |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kissed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hugged | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gave | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drink | cc |
| 18 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 eat | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hungry | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 hungry | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hungry | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hungry | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 hungry | advmod |
| 24 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drink | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 fetched | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fetched | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 fetched | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fetched | nsubj |
| 29 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hugged | parataxis |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 clothes | amod |
| 31 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 29 fetched | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fetched | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 spoiled | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 spoiled | mark |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 ones | nmod:poss |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ones | amod |
| 38 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 spoiled | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 spoiled | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 41 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 42 spoiled | advmod |
| 42 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 fetched | conj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 journey | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 journey | nmod:poss |
| 45 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 spoiled | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hugged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hug | past | cows = cow | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | cows = cow not said here | cows's dear little son | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | cows = cow not said here | plenty | father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plenty=Theme | |||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | cows = cow not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | infinitive | cows = cow not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | father | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fetch | past | cows = cow | new clothes | then | for father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme for he=Beneficiary | ||
| 8 | spoil | past · perfect · passive | father's old ones | father's journey | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | journey | father | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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