Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 90
This was just what Tom had reckoned upon; and now he began to set up a great shout, making all the noise he could.
Who acts: This, Tom · What happens: be, reckon, begin, set up, make · To what, where: Tom, great shout, noise
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reckoned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckoned | aux |
| 7 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 reckoned | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 began | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shout | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shout | amod |
| 19 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 making | punct |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 began | xcomp |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 noise | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 noise | det |
| 24 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 making | aux |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reckon | past · perfect · passive | Tom | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | Tom | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | set up | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | a great shout | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient shout=Result | ||||
| 5 | make | could | Tom not said here | all noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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