English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 17

On saying this, he drew the string tight round his neck, and gave the bag such a hearty shake, that poor little Tom's legs, thighs, and body were sadly bruised.

Who acts: boy, that · What happens: say, draw, give, leg, bruise · To what, where: this, string, bag, body · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, that), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 saying	mark
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 drew	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 saying	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drew	nsubj
6	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 string	det
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	obj
9	tight	tight	ADV	_	6 drew	advmod
10	round	round	ADP	_	12 neck	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 neck	nmod:poss
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drew	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bag	det
17	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 shake	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shake	det
20	hearty	hearty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shake	amod
21	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 legs	punct
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 legs	nsubj
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 legs	amod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 legs	amod
26	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 legs	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Tom	case
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shake	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thighs	punct
30	thighs	thigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 legs	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bruised	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bruised	cc
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bruised	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 bruised	aux:pass
35	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	36 bruised	advmod
36	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 gave	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	boy not said here	this		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	draw	past	boy	the string	round boy's neck; tight property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
3	give	past	boy not said here	the bag		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bag=Recipient shake=Theme
4	leg		that			tree rules
5	bruise	past · passive		body	sadly property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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