Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 47

‘Look about on the ground,’ answered he, ‘and listen where the sound comes from.’

Who acts: Tom, sound · What happens: look, answer, listen, come · 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, sound), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 Look	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
9	answered	answer	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 answered	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
14	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	parataxis
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 comes	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sound	det
17	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	nsubj
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	advcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	18 comes	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive		on the ground; about property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	Tom		tree rules
3	listen	infinitive			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	come	present	the sound		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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