English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 14

When he was old enough to play with the boys, and had lost all his own cherry-stones, he used to creep into the bags of his playfellows, fill his pockets, and, getting out without their noticing him, would again join in the game.

Who acts: Tom, pockets · What happens: be, play, lose, use, creep, fill · To what, where: own cherry stones, bags, pockets, Tom

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, pockets), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 old	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 old	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 boys	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boys	det
10	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 play	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lost	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	aux
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 old	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 stones	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 stones	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stones	amod
18	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stones	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 cherry	punct
20	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lost	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 used	nsubj
23	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 creep	mark
25	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	xcomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 bags	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bags	det
28	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 creep	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 playfellows	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 playfellows	nmod:poss
31	playfellows	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bags	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fill	punct
33	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 creep	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 pockets	nmod:poss
35	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fill	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 getting	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 getting	cc
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 getting	punct
39	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 used	advcl
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 getting	compound:prt
41	without	without	SCONJ	_	43 noticing	mark
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 noticing	nsubj
43	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 getting	advcl
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 noticing	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 join	punct
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 join	aux
47	again	again	ADV	_	48 join	advmod
48	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	conj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 game	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 game	det
51	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 join	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tom				enough, old property	tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive	Tom not said here				with the boys	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with boy=Co-Agent
3	lose	past · perfect	Tom not said here	Tom's own cherry stones				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Eventuality
4	use	past	Tom					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	creep	to-infinitive	Tom not said here		the bags of Tom's playfellows			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination
6	fill	infinitive	Tom not said here	Tom's pockets				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient
7	get out	gerund	Tom not said here					vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	notice	gerund	pockets = pocket	Tom				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
9	join	would	Tom not said here			again	in the game	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in game=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: «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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