Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 36

Then they ran at once to the place, and poked the ends of their sticks into the mouse-hole, but all in vain; Tom only crawled farther and farther in; and at last it became quite dark, so that they were forced to go their way without their prize, as sulky as could be.

Who acts: masters, Tom, hole · What happens: run, poke, crawl, become, force, go · To what, where: ends, last, masters, way

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 (masters, Tom, hole), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ran	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 ran	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 poked	cc
11	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ends	det
13	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 poked	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sticks	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sticks	nmod:poss
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ends	nmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 hole	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hole	det
19	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hole	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 mouse	punct
21	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 vain	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 vain	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 vain	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 vain	case
26	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 poked	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 crawled	punct
28	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 crawled	nsubj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 crawled	advmod
30	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
31	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 crawled	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 farther	cc
33	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 farther	conj
34	in	in	ADV	_	33 farther	advmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 became	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 became	cc
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 last	case
38	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 became	obl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 became	nsubj
40	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
41	quite	quite	ADV	_	42 dark	advmod
42	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 became	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 forced	punct
44	so	so	ADV	_	48 forced	advmod
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 forced	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 forced	nsubj:pass
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 forced	aux:pass
48	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	parataxis
49	to	to	PART	_	50 go	mark
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 forced	xcomp
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 way	nmod:poss
52	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 go	obj
53	without	without	ADP	_	55 prize	case
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 prize	nmod:poss
55	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 go	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 sulky	punct
57	as	as	ADP	_	58 sulky	case
58	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 forced	parataxis
59	as	as	SCONJ	_	61 be	mark
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 be	aux
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 sulky	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	masters = master			then	to the place result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result
2	poke	past	masters = master not said here	the ends of masters's sticks			into the mouse hole	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent end=Instrument into hole=Patient
3	crawl	past	Tom				far property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	hole		last		dark property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	force	past · passive		masters = master				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go	to-infinitive	masters = master not said here	masters's way			without masters's prize	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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