English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 13

Tom never grew any larger than his father's thumb, which was only of ordinary size; but as he got older he became very cunning and full of tricks.

Who acts: Tom, thumb · What happens: not grow, be, get, become

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, thumb), 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	3 grew	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 grew	advmod
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	ADV	_	5 larger	advmod
5	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	10 thumb	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thumb	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 larger	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 size	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 size	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 size	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 size	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 size	case
16	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 size	amod
17	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thumb	appos
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 got	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 got	nsubj
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 became	advcl
23	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 got	xcomp
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 cunning	advmod
27	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 became	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 full	cc
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cunning	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 tricks	case
31	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 full	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not grow	past	Tom	large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Tom's father's thumb	of ordinary size	tree rules
3	get	past	Tom	old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	become	past	Tom	cunning property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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