Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 81
So the cow was killed, and cut up; and the stomach, in which Tom lay, was thrown out upon a dunghill.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: kill, cut up, lie, throw out · To what, where: cow, stomach, dunghill
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 (Tom), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 killed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cow | det |
| 3 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cut | cc |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 killed | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stomach | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stomach | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stomach | det |
| 13 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lay | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lay | obl |
| 17 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stomach | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thrown | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 thrown | aux:pass |
| 21 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 lay | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 thrown | compound:prt |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 dunghill | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dunghill | det |
| 25 | dunghill | dunghill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thrown | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the cow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut up | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | lie | past | Tom | the stomach | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | ||||
| 4 | throw out | past · passive | Tom not said here | a dunghill | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: upon dunghill=Destination |
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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