Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 63
By the time she came back, Tom had slipped off into the barn; and when she had looked about and searched every hole and corner, and found nobody, she went to bed, thinking she must have been dreaming with her eyes open.
Who acts: thief, Tom · What happens: come back, slip off, look, search, find, go · To what, where: time, barn, hole, nobody, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thief, Tom), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slipped | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 8 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 slipped | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slipped | aux |
| 10 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 slipped | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 barn | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 barn | det |
| 14 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slipped | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 looked | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 looked | aux |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 slipped | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 searched | cc |
| 23 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slipped | conj |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 hole | det |
| 25 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 searched | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 corner | cc |
| 27 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hole | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slipped | parataxis |
| 31 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 found | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 went | nsubj |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 found | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 bed | case |
| 36 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 thinking | punct |
| 38 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 went | advcl |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 dreaming | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 dreaming | aux |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 dreaming | aux |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 dreaming | aux |
| 43 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 thinking | ccomp |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 eyes | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 46 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 dreaming | obl |
| 47 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dreaming | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | thief | the time not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slip off | past · perfect | Tom | the barn | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | look | past · perfect | thief | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | search | past | Tom not said here | every hole and corner | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Location | ||||
| 5 | find | past | nobody | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Topic | |||||
| 6 | go | past | thief | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | gerund | thief not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | dream | must · perfect · progressive | thief | with thief's eyes; open property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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