Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 84
Tom, however, was still not disheartened; and thinking the wolf would not dislike having some chat with him as he was going along, he called out, ‘My good friend, I can show you a famous treat.’
Who acts: thinking, Tom, I · What happens: not dishearten, think, not dislike, have, go along, call out · To what, where: Tom, wolf, chat, good friend, famous treat, you
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 (thinking, Tom, I), 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 | 8 disheartened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tom | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 disheartened | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disheartened | aux |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 disheartened | advmod |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 disheartened | advmod |
| 8 | disheartened | dishearten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 show | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 dislike | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dislike | cc |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 dislike | csubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thinking | obj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 dislike | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 dislike | advmod |
| 16 | dislike | dislike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 disheartened | advcl |
| 17 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 dislike | xcomp |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 chat | det |
| 19 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 having | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 having | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 going | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 going | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 going | aux |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 having | advcl |
| 26 | along | along | ADV | _ | 25 going | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 called | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 called | nsubj |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disheartened | advcl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 called | compound:prt |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 friend | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 friend | punct |
| 33 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 friend | nmod:poss |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 friend | amod |
| 35 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 called | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 disheartened | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 show | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 show | aux |
| 39 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 show | iobj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 treat | det |
| 42 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 treat | amod |
| 43 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 show | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 show | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dishearten | past · passive | Tom | still | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | the wolf | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wolf=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not dislike | would | thinking | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | gerund | thinking not said here | some chat | with Tom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient | |||
| 5 | go along | past · progressive | Tom | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call out speech: assert | past | Tom | My good friend | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | show | can | I | a famous treat | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient treat=Topic |
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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