English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 11

“An oak-leaf hat he had for his crown; His shirt of web by spiders spun; With jacket wove of thistle's down; His trowsers were of feathers done.

Who acts: Tom, trowsers · What happens: have, spin, weave, be, do, crown · To what, where: oak leaf hat, spiders, feathers

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of 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, trowsers), 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	_	6 hat	punct
2	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hat	det
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hat	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 oak	punct
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hat	compound
6	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hat	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 crown	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 crown	nmod:poss
11	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 shirt	punct
13	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shirt	nmod:poss
14	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hat	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 web	case
16	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shirt	nmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 spiders	case
18	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shirt	nmod
19	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 spiders	acl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 wove	punct
21	With	with	ADP	_	22 jacket	case
22	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wove	obl
23	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spun	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 down	case
25	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 down	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 thistle	case
27	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wove	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 feathers	punct
29	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 trowsers	nmod:poss
30	trowsers	trowser	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 feathers	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 feathers	cop
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 feathers	case
33	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hat	conj
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 feathers	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	Tom	a oak leaf hat and Tom's shirt of web by spiders and feathers not said here	for Tom's crown	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient
2	spin in a quote	participle		spiders not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	weave in a quote	past			with jacket; of thistle's down	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of down=Trajectory
4	is in a quote	past	Tom's trowsers		of feathers	tree rules
5	do in a quote	participle		feathers not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	crown in a quote		Tom			nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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