Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 60
Then Tom called out as loud as he could, ‘Very well! hold your hands! here it comes.’
Who acts: hand · What happens: call out, hold, come · 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 (hand), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 loud | advmod |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 loud | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 12 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 13 well | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 called | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 15 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | xcomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hold | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 21 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 comes | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | Tom | here | then | loud, well property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | hold | infinitive | your hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | present | hand | 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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