English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 21
A poor tinker, who was passing by, lifted up the pudding, and, putting it into his budget, he then walked off.
Who acts: poor tinker, tinker · What happens: pass by, lift up, put, walk off, budget · To what, where: poor tinker, pudding, budget
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 (poor tinker, tinker), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tinker | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tinker | amod |
| 3 | tinker | tinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 passing | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 passing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passing | aux |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tinker | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 passing | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifted | punct |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lifted | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pudding | det |
| 13 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lifted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 walked | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 putting | punct |
| 17 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 walked | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 putting | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 budget | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 budget | nmod:poss |
| 21 | budget | budget | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 putting | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 putting | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 walked | advmod |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lifted | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 walked | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | past · progressive | a poor tinker | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lift up | participle · passive | a poor tinker | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme pudding=Destination | |||||
| 3 | put | gerund | tinker not said here | pudding | tinker's budget | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 4 | walk off | past | tinker | then | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | budget | tinker | nom budget «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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