Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 35
‘Good night, my masters!’ said he, ‘I’m off! mind and look sharp after me the next time.’
Who acts: Tom, I · What happens: say, be off, look · To what, where: mind · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 masters | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 masters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 night | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’m | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’m | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ’m | nsubj |
| 14 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 ’m | compound:prt |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 mind | punct |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ’m | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 look | cc |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ’m | conj |
| 20 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 look | xcomp |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 look | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 look | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be off | present | I | mind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | present | I not said here | after me; time | sharp property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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