Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 17

‘What an odd thing that is!’ said one: ‘there is a cart going along, and I hear a carter talking to the horse, but yet I can see no one.’

Who acts: cart, I, carter · What happens: be, say, go along, hear, talk, see · To what, where: that, carter, one · 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 (cart, I, carter), 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	_	5 thing	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 thing	nsubj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	obj
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 said	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hear	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cart	det
17	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 is	nsubj
18	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 cart	acl
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hear	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hear	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hear	nsubj
23	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 carter	det
25	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hear	obj
26	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 carter	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 horse	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horse	det
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 talking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 see	cc
32	yet	yet	ADV	_	35 see	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hear	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		that				tree rules
3	be	present	a cart		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go along	gerund	a cart not said here				along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	present	I	a carter				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer carter=Stimulus
6	talk	gerund	a carter not said here				to the horse	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to horse=Co-Agent
7	see	can	I	no one		yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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