Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 5

Now--odd as you may think it--it came to pass that this good woman’s wish was fulfilled, just in the very way she had wished it; for, not long afterwards, she had a little boy, who was quite healthy and strong, but was not much bigger than my thumb.

Who acts: you, wheel, woman, little boy, good woman · What happens: think, come, pass, fulfil, wish, have · To what, where: wheel, wish, way, little boy

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 (you, wheel, woman, little boy), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 odd	advmod
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 think	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 odd	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 think	obj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pass	mark
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fulfilled	mark
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 woman	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wish	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 woman	case
19	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fulfilled	aux:pass
21	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 pass	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 way	punct
23	just	just	ADV	_	27 way	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 way	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 way	advmod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fulfilled	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wished	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wished	aux
30	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 way	acl:relcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wished	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 long	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 long	case
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 long	punct
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 long	advmod
36	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 odd	conj
37	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	36 long	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 long	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 boy	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 boy	amod
43	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 healthy	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 healthy	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 healthy	cop
47	quite	quite	ADV	_	48 healthy	advmod
48	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 boy	acl:relcl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 strong	cc
50	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 healthy	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 bigger	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 bigger	cc
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 bigger	cop
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 much	advmod
55	much	much	ADV	_	56 bigger	advmod
56	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 had	conj
57	than	than	ADP	_	59 thumb	case
58	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 thumb	nmod:poss
59	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 bigger	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 odd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	may	you	wheel			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	come	past	wheel				tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	wheel not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fulfil	past · passive		this good woman's wish	the way		tree rules
5	wish	past · perfect	woman	wheel			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
6	have	past	woman	a little boy			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
7	is	past	a little boy			healthy property	tree rules
8	be		a little boy not said here				tree rules
9	is	past	woman not said here			than my thumb; big property	tree rules
10	wish		this good woman				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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