Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 72

Though he made the best of his bad luck, he did not like his quarters at all; and the worst of it was, that more and more hay was always coming down, and the space left for him became smaller and smaller.

Who acts: lack, more hay, space · What happens: make, not like, come down, leave, become · To what, where: quarters, all

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 (lack, more hay, space), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	3 made	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 left	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 made	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 luck	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 luck	nmod:poss
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 luck	amod
9	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 like	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 like	advmod
14	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 quarters	nmod:poss
16	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 like	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 like	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 coming	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 worst	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 worst	det
22	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 coming	aux
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 worst	obl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 coming	aux
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 coming	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 coming	mark
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 hay	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 more	cc
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 more	conj
31	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 coming	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 coming	aux
33	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 coming	advmod
34	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	conj
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 coming	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 left	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 left	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 space	det
39	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 left	nsubj
40	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 became	mark
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 became	nsubj
43	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 left	advcl
44	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 became	xcomp
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 smaller	cc
46	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 smaller	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	lack			good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not like	past · do-support	lack	lack's quarters	all		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot quarter=Theme
3	come down	progressive	more hay			always, down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past	the space				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	become	past	lack			small property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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