English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 15

One day, however, as he was coming out of a bag of cherry-stones, where he had been stealing as usual, the boy to whom it belonged chanced to see him.

Who acts: Tom, game · What happens: come out, steal, belong, chance, see · To what, where: bag, boy, 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, game), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 coming	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 coming	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 coming	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 coming	aux
9	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 bag	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 bag	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bag	det
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 stones	case
15	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stones	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 cherry	punct
17	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bag	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stealing	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 stealing	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stealing	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stealing	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 stealing	aux
23	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 coming	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 usual	case
25	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stealing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 boy	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stealing	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 whom	case
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 boy	nmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 belonged	nsubj
32	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 whom	acl:relcl
33	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 boy	acl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 see	mark
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 chanced	xcomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 see	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come out	past · progressive	Tom	a bag of cherry stones	however property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bag=Result
2	steal	past · perfect · progressive	Tom		as usual	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	belong	past	game			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	chance	participle		the boy not said here		vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive		Tom		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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: «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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