Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 41
‘This is lucky,’ said he, ‘I can sleep here very well’; and in he crept.
Who acts: This, Tom, I · What happens: be, say, sleep, creep · 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 (This, 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 | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lucky | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lucky | cop |
| 4 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sleep | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sleep | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sleep | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sleep | aux |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sleep | advmod |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 well | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 sleep | advmod |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sleep | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 crept | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crept | cc |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 crept | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 crept | nsubj |
| 22 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sleep | can | I | here | well property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | creep | past | Tom | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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