Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 34
But Tom ran about amongst the furrows, and at last slipped into an old mouse-hole.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: run about, slip · To what, where: furrows, last
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 (Tom), 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 | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 7 furrows | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 furrows | det |
| 7 | furrows | furrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slipped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slipped | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 slipped | obl |
| 12 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hole | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hole | amod |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hole | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 mouse | punct |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slipped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run about | past | Tom | the furrows | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst furrow=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | slip | participle | last | into a old mouse hole | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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