Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 146

Then the little man began to chuckle at the thought of having the poor child, to take home with him to his hut in the woods; and he cried out, ‘Now, lady, what is my name?’

Who acts: little man, thought, man, lady · What happens: begin, chuckle, have, take, cry out, be · To what, where: thought, poor child, woods, lady, name

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 man, thought, man, lady), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chuckle	mark
7	chuckle	chuckle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 thought	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thought	det
10	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuckle	obl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 having	mark
12	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 thought	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 having	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 chuckle	conj
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 take	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 hut	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hut	nmod:poss
24	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 woods	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 woods	det
27	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 take	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cried	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cried	nsubj
31	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 cried	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lady	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 lady	punct
35	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 lady	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lady	punct
37	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cried	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 name	punct
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 name	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 name	cop
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 name	nmod:poss
42	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lady	appos
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	42 name	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 lady	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the little man			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	chuckle	to-infinitive	the little man not said here		the thought			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund	the thought not said here	the poor child				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	take	to-infinitive	the little man not said here		the woods		with man; to man's hut result; home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result
5	cry out speech: express	past	man	lady				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	lady	my name				tree rules

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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