Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 27

But Tom, hearing of the bargain they wanted to make, crept up his father’s coat to his shoulder and whispered in his ear, ‘Take the money, father, and let them have me; I’ll soon come back to you.’

Who acts: flesh, bargain, Tom, I · What happens: want, make, creep up, whisper, take, let · To what, where: bargain, coat, ear, money, flesh, me

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 (flesh, bargain, Tom, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 crept	cc
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 crept	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hearing	punct
4	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tom	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bargain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bargain	det
7	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bargain	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tom	punct
13	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 crept	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 coat	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 father	case
18	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crept	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 shoulder	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shoulder	nmod:poss
21	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crept	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 whispered	cc
23	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crept	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ear	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ear	nmod:poss
26	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whispered	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Take	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 Take	punct
29	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 whispered	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 money	det
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Take	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 father	punct
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 money	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 let	cc
36	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 Take	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 let	obj
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 have	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 ’ll	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 ’ll	nsubj
42	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 crept	parataxis
43	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 come	advmod
44	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 crept	advcl
45	back	back	ADV	_	44 come	advmod
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 you	case
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 come	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 crept	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	flesh	the bargain not said here				tree rules
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bargain not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	creep up	past	Tom	Tom's father's coat			to father's shoulder	tree rules
4	whisper speech: assert	past	Tom not said here			father's ear		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
5	take	infinitive		the money and father				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	let	infinitive		flesh				tree rules
7	have	infinitive	flesh not said here	me				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
8	'll	present	I					tree rules
9	come back	present	Tom not said here		you		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
10	hear		the bargain					nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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