Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 155

Then he made the best of his way off, while the nurse laughed and the baby crowed; and all the court jeered at him for having had so much trouble for nothing, and said, ‘We wish you a very good morning, and a merry feast, Mr RUMPLESTILTSKIN!’

Who acts: man, nurse, baby, court, We · What happens: make, laugh, crow, jeer, have, say · To what, where: had much trouble, you · 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 (man, nurse, baby, court), 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	3 made	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 made	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	obl
9	off	off	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laughed	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 laughed	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nurse	det
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	nsubj
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crowed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 baby	det
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crowed	nsubj
18	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 laughed	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 jeered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 jeered	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 court	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 court	det
23	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jeered	nsubj
24	jeered	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 jeered	obl
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 having	mark
28	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 jeered	advcl
29	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 trouble	amod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 trouble	amod
32	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 trouble	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wish	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 wish	punct
40	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 wish	nsubj
41	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 said	ccomp
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 wish	iobj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 morning	det
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 good	advmod
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 morning	amod
46	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wish	obl:unmarked
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 feast	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 feast	cc
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 feast	det
50	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 feast	amod
51	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Mr	punct
53	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 feast	appos
54	RUMPLESTILTSKIN	RUMPLESTILTSKIN	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Mr	flat
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 Mr	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	51 feast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	man			then	good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	the nurse					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	crow	past	the baby					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	jeer	past	all court				at man	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	gerund	all court not said here	had much trouble			for nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient
6	have	participle						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past	man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	wish	present	We		you	morning		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=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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