Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 66
The cook got up early, before daybreak, to feed the cows; and going straight to the hay-loft, carried away a large bundle of hay, with the little man in the middle of it, fast asleep.
Who acts: cook · What happens: get up, feed, go, carry away · To what, where: cows, hay loft, large bundle
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 (cook), 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 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daybreak | punct |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 daybreak | case |
| 8 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feed | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 feed | mark |
| 11 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cows | det |
| 13 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feed | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 going | cc |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 loft | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 loft | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 loft | det |
| 20 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 loft | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hay | punct |
| 22 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 going | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 carried | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bundle | det |
| 27 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bundle | amod |
| 28 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hay | case |
| 30 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bundle | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 man | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 man | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 man | amod |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 middle | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 middle | det |
| 38 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 man | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 middle | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fast | punct |
| 42 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 asleep | advmod |
| 43 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 man | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the cook | before daybreak | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | feed | to-infinitive | the cook not said here | the cows | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the cook not said here | the hay loft | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to loft=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | carry away | participle | the cook not said here | a large bundle of hay | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=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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