Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 8

They gave him plenty of food, yet for all they could do he never grew bigger, but kept just the same size as he had been when he was born.

Who acts: people, all · What happens: give, do, not grow, keep, bear · To what, where: plenty, wish, same size

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 (people, all), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plenty	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
8	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 grew	nsubj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 all	acl:relcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grew	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 grew	advmod
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
17	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 grew	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 kept	cc
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	conj
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 size	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 size	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 size	amod
24	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 born	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 born	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 born	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 born	aux:pass
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 born	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 born	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 born	aux:pass
32	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 kept	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	people	plenty of food	wish		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plenty=Theme
2	do	could	people				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not grow	past	all			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	past	all not said here	the same size			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	bear	past · perfect · passive		wish			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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