Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 32

They journeyed on till it began to be dusky, and then the little man said, ‘Let me get down, I’m tired.’

Who acts: strangers, leave, little man, me, I · What happens: journey, begin, be, say, let, get down · To what, where: me · 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 (strangers, leave, little man, me), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 journeyed	nsubj
2	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 journeyed	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 began	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 journeyed	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	9 dusky	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dusky	cop
9	dusky	dusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 began	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 said	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 journeyed	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
19	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Let	obj
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Let	xcomp
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 get	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ’m	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 ’m	nsubj
25	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Let	parataxis
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ’m	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 journeyed	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 journeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	journey	past	strangers = stranger				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	leave				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	to-infinitive	leave not said here			dusky property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the little man		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
6	get down	infinitive	me not said here			down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
7	be	present	I			tired property	vn exist-47.1 «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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