Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 21

So his father took hold of the horse with one hand, and with the other took his son out of the horse’s ear, and put him down upon a straw, where he sat as merry as you please.

Who acts: father, other · What happens: take, put down, sit, hold · To what, where: hold, son, ear, father, straw, horse

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 (father, other), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hand	nummod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 other	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 son	nmod:poss
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	25 ear	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 ear	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horse	det
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ear	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 horse	case
25	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	down	down	ADP	_	28 put	compound:prt
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 straw	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 straw	det
33	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sat	punct
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 sat	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sat	nsubj
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 put	advcl
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 merry	advmod
39	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sat	xcomp
40	as	as	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 merry	obl
42	please	please	INTJ	_	37 sat	discourse
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	thumb's father	hold of the horse		with one hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	take	past	the other	father's son	the horse's ear		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent son=Theme out ear=Initial_Location
3	put down	infinitive	thumb's father not said here	father	a straw		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon straw=Destination
4	sit	past	father			merry property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold			the horse			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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