Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 136
But one day he came into her room, where she was sitting playing with her baby, and put her in mind of it.
Who acts: manikin, daughter · What happens: come, sit, play, put, mind · To what, where: room, daughter, mind
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 (manikin, daughter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 room | nmod:poss |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sitting | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 sitting | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sitting | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sitting | aux |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 room | acl:relcl |
| 14 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sitting | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 baby | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 baby | nmod:poss |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 playing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 mind | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | manikin | daughter's room | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | daughter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | play | gerund | daughter not said here | with daughter's baby | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with baby=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past | manikin not said here | daughter | mind of mind | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in mind=Destination | |||
| 5 | mind | mind | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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