English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 20

The batter filled Tom's mouth, and prevented him from crying; but, on feeling the hot water, he kicked and struggled so much in the pot, that his mother thought that the pudding was bewitched, and, pulling it out of the pot, she threw it outside the door.

Who acts: batter, Tom, mother · What happens: fill, prevent, cry, feel, kick, struggle · To what, where: mouth, Tom, hot water, pot, pudding · 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 (batter, Tom, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 batter	det
2	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 filled	nsubj
3	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mouth	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tom	case
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 filled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prevented	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 prevented	cc
9	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 filled	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 prevented	obj
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 crying	mark
12	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 prevented	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 kicked	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 kicked	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 but	punct
16	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 feeling	mark
17	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 kicked	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 water	amod
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feeling	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feeling	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kicked	nsubj
23	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 filled	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 struggled	cc
25	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kicked	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADV	_	25 struggled	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 pot	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pot	det
30	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 struggled	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thought	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 thought	mark
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mother	nmod:poss
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thought	nsubj
35	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kicked	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 bewitched	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pudding	det
38	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bewitched	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 bewitched	aux:pass
40	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 thought	ccomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 threw	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 threw	cc
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 pulling	punct
44	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 threw	ccomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 pulling	obj
46	out	out	ADP	_	49 pot	case
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 pot	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 pot	det
49	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pulling	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 pulling	punct
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 threw	nsubj
52	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 thought	conj
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 threw	obj
54	outside	outside	ADP	_	56 door	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 door	det
56	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 threw	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill	past	the batter	Tom's mouth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
2	prevent	past	the batter not said here	Tom			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
3	cry speech: express	gerund	the batter not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feel	gerund	Tom not said here	the hot water			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5	kick	past	Tom				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	struggle	past	Tom not said here		the pot		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	think speech: other	past	Tom's mother				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	bewitch	past · passive		the pudding			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
9	pull	gerund	mother not said here	pudding	the pot		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out pot=Initial_Location
10	throw	past	mother	pudding		outside the door	tree rules

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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