Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 82

Tom soon set himself to work to get out, which was not a very easy task; but at last, just as he had made room to get his head out, fresh ill-luck befell him.

Who acts: Tom, last made room · What happens: set, work, get out, not be, make, befall · To what, where: Tom, easy task, head

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, last made room), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 set	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 set	advmod
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 set	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 work	advcl
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 task	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 task	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 task	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 task	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 task	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 easy	advmod
16	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 task	amod
17	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 room	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 room	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 room	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 last	punct
23	just	just	ADV	_	27 made	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 made	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 room	amod
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 befell	nsubj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 room	acl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	30 get	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 luck	punct
35	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 luck	amod
36	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 luck	amod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 ill	punct
38	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 befell	nsubj
39	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 befell	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past	Tom	Tom	soon property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	Tom not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get out	to-infinitive	Tom not said here		out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	past		a easy task		tree rules
5	make	past · perfect	Tom			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	get out	to-infinitive	last made room not said here	Tom's head		tree rules
7	befall	past	last made room	Tom		tree rules

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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