Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 105
So Master Thumb stayed at home with his father and mother, in peace; for though he had been so great a traveller, and had done and seen so many fine things, and was fond enough of telling the whole story, he always agreed that, after all, there’s no place like HOME!
Who acts: Master Thumb, father · What happens: stay, be, do, see, tell, agree · To what, where: home, many fine things, whole story, that · 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 (Master Thumb, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 2 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Thumb | compound |
| 3 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mother | cc |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 father | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 peace | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 peace | case |
| 14 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 great | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 great | case |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 great | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 great | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 great | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 great | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 great | advmod |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 traveller | det |
| 24 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 great | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 done | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 done | cc |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 done | aux |
| 28 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 stayed | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 seen | cc |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 done | conj |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 many | advmod |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 things | amod |
| 33 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 things | amod |
| 34 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 seen | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fond | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fond | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 fond | cop |
| 38 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | parataxis |
| 39 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 38 fond | advmod |
| 40 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 telling | mark |
| 41 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 fond | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 story | det |
| 43 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 story | amod |
| 44 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 telling | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 agreed | punct |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 agreed | nsubj |
| 47 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 48 agreed | advmod |
| 48 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 agreed | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 all | punct |
| 51 | after | after | ADP | _ | 52 all | case |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 agreed | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 ’s | punct |
| 54 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 55 ’s | expl |
| 55 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 56 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 57 place | det |
| 57 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 ’s | obj |
| 58 | like | like | ADP | _ | 59 HOME | case |
| 59 | HOME | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 place | nmod |
| 60 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Master Thumb | home | with thumb's father and mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | father | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Master Thumb not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | participle | Master Thumb not said here | many fine things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | enough, fond property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the whole story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | agree speech: agree | past | father | that | after all | always property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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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