Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 86
‘In such and such a house,’ said Tom, describing his own father’s house.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: say, describe · To what, where: such house, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 house | cc |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 house | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 describing | punct |
| 13 | describing | describe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 father | amod |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 father | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 describing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | such such house | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in house=Manner | ||||
| 2 | describe | gerund | Tom not said here | Tom's own father's house | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent house=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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