Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 117

He took her at her word, and sat himself down to the wheel, and whistled and sang:

Who acts: necklace, maiden · What happens: take, sit down, whistle, sing, word · To what, where: maiden, word, necklace

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 (necklace, maiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 sat	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 wheel	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wheel	det
14	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whistled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 whistled	cc
17	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sang	cc
19	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 whistled	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	necklace	maiden	maiden's word		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at word=Asset
2	sit down	past	necklace not said here	necklace		to the wheel	tree rules
3	whistle	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	past					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	word		maiden				nom word «communication 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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