Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 154

‘Some witch told you that!--some witch told you that!’ cried the little man, and dashed his right foot in a rage so deep into the floor, that he was forced to lay hold of it with both hands to pull it out.

Who acts: witch, man · What happens: tell, cry, dash, force, lay, pull out · To what, where: you, little man, right foot, rage, man, hold · 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 (witch, man), 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	_	4 told	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 you	nmod:unmarked
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 you	nmod:unmarked
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dashed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dashed	cc
22	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 foot	nmod:poss
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 foot	amod
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dashed	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 rage	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rage	det
28	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dashed	obl
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 deep	advmod
30	deep	deep	ADV	_	33 floor	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 floor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dashed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 forced	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 forced	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 forced	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 forced	aux:pass
38	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dashed	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 lay	mark
40	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 forced	xcomp
41	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lay	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hold	nmod
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 hands	case
45	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	46 hands	det
46	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 lay	obl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 pull	mark
48	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 lay	advcl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 pull	obj
50	out	out	ADP	_	48 pull	compound:prt
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	some witch		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	some witch		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	cry speech: express	past	some witch not said here	the little man				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
4	dash	past	some witch not said here	man's right foot		a rage	into the floor result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent foot=Patient into floor=Result
5	force	past · passive		man				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	lay	to-infinitive	man not said here	hold of hold			with both hands	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
7	pull out	to-infinitive	man not said here	foot				tree rules
8	hold			hold				nom hold «act 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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