Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 67

He still, however, slept on, and did not awake till he found himself in the mouth of the cow; for the cook had put the hay into the cow’s rick, and the cow had taken Tom up in a mouthful of it.

Who acts: man, cow · What happens: sleep on, find, put, take, rick · To what, where: man, mouth, hay, rick, cow, mouthful

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 (man, cow), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slept	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	6 slept	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 still	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 slept	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 slept	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 awake	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 awake	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 awake	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 awake	advmod
12	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slept	advcl
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 found	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 awake	advcl
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 found	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mouth	det
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 cow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cow	det
22	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mouth	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 cook	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cook	det
26	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 slept	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hay	det
30	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	35 rick	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cow	det
33	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rick	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 cow	case
35	rick	rick	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 taken	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 taken	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cow	det
39	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 taken	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 taken	aux
41	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 put	conj
42	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 taken	obj
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 Tom	compound:prt
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 mouthful	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 mouthful	det
46	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 taken	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 mouthful	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep on	past	man			still	however property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	man	man	the mouth of the cow			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	put	past · perfect	man not said here	the hay	the cow's rick		for the cook	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hay=Goal
4	take	past · perfect · passive		the cow	a mouthful of hay			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme tom=Destination
5	rick		the cow					nom rick «state transitive»: poss=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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