Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 62
The thieves ran off as if a wolf was at their tails: and the maid, having groped about and found nothing, went away for a light.
Who acts: thieves, wolf · What happens: run off, be, grope, find, go away · To what, where: maid, nothing
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 (thieves, wolf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thieves | det |
| 2 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 tails | case |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 tails | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wolf | det |
| 8 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tails | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tails | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 tails | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tails | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 maid | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 maid | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maid | det |
| 16 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 groped | punct |
| 18 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 groped | aux |
| 19 | groped | grope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 maid | acl:relcl |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 groped | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 groped | conj |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 light | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 light | det |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | the thieves | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | a wolf | as money's tails | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grope | gerund · perfect | the maid not said here | about property | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go away | past | the thieves not said here | for a light; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for light=Beneficiary |
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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