Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 40
At last, by good luck, he found a large empty snail-shell.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: find · To what, where: large empty snail shell, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 found | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 luck | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 luck | case |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 luck | amod |
| 6 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shell | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shell | amod |
| 12 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shell | amod |
| 13 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shell | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 snail | punct |
| 15 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Tom | a large empty snail shell | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent shell=Theme at last=Asset |
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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