Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 79

Scarcely had they set foot on the threshold, when Tom called out, ‘Don’t bring me any more hay!’

Who acts: Scarcely · What happens: have, call out, not bring · To what, where: quarters, threshold, Tom, hay, me

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 (Scarcely), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obj
4	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 foot	amod
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 threshold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 threshold	det
8	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 called	advmod
11	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 called	nsubj:pass
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 threshold	acl:relcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 called	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
16	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 bring	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 bring	advmod
18	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bring	obj
20	any	any	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 hay	advmod
22	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bring	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely	quarters = quarter		the threshold	tree rules
2	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		Tom			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	not bring	infinitive · do-support		hay	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination hay=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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