Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 13

‘Never mind that, father,’ said Tom; ‘if my mother will only harness the horse, I will get into his ear and tell him which way to go.’

Who acts: Tom, mother, I · What happens: not mind, say, harness, get, tell, go · To what, where: that, horse, ear, way · 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 (Tom, mother, I), 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	_	3 mind	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 mind	advmod
3	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 mind	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mind	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 harness	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 harness	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 harness	mark
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 harness	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 harness	aux
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 harness	advmod
18	harness	harness	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 harness	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 harness	parataxis
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 ear	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ear	nmod:poss
27	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tell	cc
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 get	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 way	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 harness	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 harness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not mind	infinitive		that			father vocative	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Tom					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	harness a condition, not said to happen	future	my mother		the horse			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination
4	get	future	I			Tom's ear		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ear=Destination
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here	which way	horse			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic
6	go	to-infinitive	I not said here	which way not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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