Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 55
But Tom seemed as if he did not understand them, and bawled out again, ‘How much will you have?
Who acts: Tom, you · What happens: seem, not understand, bawl out, have · To what, where: money, much
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, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 seemed | cc |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 understand | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 understand | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 understand | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 understand | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 understand | advmod |
| 9 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 understand | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bawled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bawled | cc |
| 13 | bawled | bawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seemed | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 bawled | compound:prt |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 bawled | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 18 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 have | obj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bawled | parataxis |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Tom | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not understand a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | Tom | money | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bawl out speech: other | participle | Tom not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | future | you | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
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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