Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 48
At last the thieves found him out, and lifted him up in their hands.
Who acts: last thieves · What happens: find out, lift up · To what, where: Tom, hands
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 (last thieves), 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 | 4 thieves | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thieves | det |
| 4 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 found | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lifted | cc |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lifted | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lifted | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lifted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past | the last thieves | Tom | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past | the last thieves not said here | Tom | eyes's hands | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in hand=Destination |
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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