Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 23
At last one took the other aside, and said, ‘That little urchin will make our fortune, if we can get him, and carry him about from town to town as a show; we must buy him.’
Who acts: last one, little urchin, we · What happens: take, say, make, get, carry, buy · To what, where: other, fortune, urchin, town · 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 (last one, little urchin, we), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 other | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 13 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 urchin | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 urchin | amod |
| 15 | urchin | urchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 get | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 carry | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 carry | cc |
| 28 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 get | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carry | obj |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 carry | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 town | case |
| 32 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 town | case |
| 34 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 town | nmod |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 show | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 show | det |
| 37 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 buy | punct |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 buy | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 buy | aux |
| 41 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | parataxis |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 buy | iobj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 buy | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | last one | the other | aside property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | last one not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | future | that little urchin | our fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product | ||||
| 4 | get a condition, not said to happen | can | we | urchin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | carry | infinitive | we not said here | urchin | town to town | as a show; about property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from town=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | buy | must | we | urchin | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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