Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 42

Just as he was falling asleep, he heard two men passing by, chatting together; and one said to the other, ‘How can we rob that rich parson’s house of his silver and gold?’

Who acts: Tom, two men, one, we · What happens: fall, hear, pass by, chat, say, rob · To what, where: two men, house · 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, two men, one, we), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 falling	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 falling	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 falling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 falling	aux
5	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 heard	advcl
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 falling	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 falling	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	obj
12	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 men	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	12 passing	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 chatting	punct
15	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 passing	conj
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 chatting	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
19	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rob	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 rob	punct
26	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 rob	advmod
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 rob	aux
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 rob	nsubj
29	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 parson	det
31	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 parson	amod
32	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 house	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 parson	case
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rob	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 silver	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 silver	nmod:poss
37	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 house	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 gold	cc
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 silver	conj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 rob	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 rob	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	Tom		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	Tom	two men		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	pass by	gerund	two men not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	chat speech: other	gerund	two men not said here		together property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	one		to the other	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic
6	rob	can	we	that rich parson's house of Tom's silver and gold		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Source

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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