Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 33
So the man took off his hat, and put him down on a clod of earth, in a ploughed field by the side of the road.
Who acts: man · What happens: take off, put down, plough · To what, where: hat, man, clod
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 (man), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 clod | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 clod | det |
| 15 | clod | clod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clod | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 field | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 field | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 21 | ploughed | plough | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 field | amod |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 side | det |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 field | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 road | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 side | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | the man | man's hat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put down | infinitive | the man not said here | man | a clod of earth | in a ploughed field by the side of the road | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on clod=Destination | ||
| 3 | plough | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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