Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 18

‘That is queer, indeed,’ said the other; ‘let us follow the cart, and see where it goes.’

Who acts: That, other, us, cart · What happens: be, say, let, follow, see, go · To what, where: us, cart · 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 (That, other, us, cart), 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 queer	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 queer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 queer	cop
4	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 indeed	punct
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 queer	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 queer	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 queer	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cart	det
18	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 follow	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	conj
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 goes	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 goes	nsubj
24	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 see	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That		indeed, queer property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
4	follow	infinitive	us not said here	the cart		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme
5	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go	present	cart			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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