Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 11
‘Oh, father,’ cried Tom, ‘I will take care of that; the cart shall be in the wood by the time you want it.’
Who acts: father, I, cart, you · What happens: cry, take, be, want · To what, where: care, wood, cart
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, cart, you), 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 | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 father | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 take | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wood | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cart | det |
| 19 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wood | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 wood | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wood | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wood | det |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wood | nmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 want | nsubj |
| 29 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 time | acl:relcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 want | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 wood | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 wood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | future | I | care | of that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of that=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | shall | the cart | the wood | time | tree rules | |||
| 4 | want | present | you | cart | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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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