Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 9

Still, his eyes were sharp and sparkling, and he soon showed himself to be a clever little fellow, who always knew well what he was about.

Who acts: eyes, wish, clever little fellow · What happens: be, sparkle, show, know · To what, where: wish, clever little fellow · 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 (eyes, wish, clever little fellow), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	6 sharp	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sharp	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sharp	cop
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sparkling	cc
8	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sharp	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 showed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 showed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 showed	nsubj
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 showed	advmod
13	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sharp	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 showed	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	20 fellow	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 fellow	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fellow	det
18	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fellow	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fellow	amod
20	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 showed	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 knew	nsubj
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 knew	advmod
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fellow	conj
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 what	advmod
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 knew	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 was	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
29	about	about	ADV	_	28 was	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sharp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wish's eyes		still	sharp property	tree rules
2	sparkle	gerund	wish's eyes not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show	past	wish	wish		soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
4	is a	to-infinitive		a clever little fellow			tree rules
5	know	past	a clever little fellow	a clever little fellow		always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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