Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 124
So her little friend took the ring, and began to work at the wheel again, and whistled and sang:
Who acts: little friend · What happens: take, begin, work, whistle, sing · To what, where: ring
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 (little friend), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 wheel | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wheel | det |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 work | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whistled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 whistled | cc |
| 19 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sang | cc |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 whistled | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | dwarf's little friend | the ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | dwarf's little friend not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | dwarf's little friend not said here | again | at the wheel | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wheel=Theme | |||
| 4 | whistle | past | dwarf's little friend not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past | dwarf's little friend not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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