English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 22

As Tom had now got his mouth cleared of the batter, he then began to cry aloud, which so frightened the tinker that he flung down the pudding and ran away.

Who acts: Tom, mouth · What happens: get, clear, begin, cry, frighten, fling down · To what, where: tinker, pudding

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, mouth), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 got	mark
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 began	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleared	nsubj
8	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 batter	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 batter	det
11	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleared	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 began	advmod
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cry	mark
17	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	17 cry	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 frightened	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 frightened	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 frightened	advmod
22	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tinker	det
24	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 frightened	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 flung	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flung	nsubj
27	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 frightened	advcl
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 flung	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pudding	det
30	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flung	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ran	cc
32	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flung	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 ran	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	Tom		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	clear	past	Tom's mouth			of the batter	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme of batter=Source
3	begin	past	mouth		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	mouth not said here			aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	frighten	past		the tinker			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer tinker=Result
6	fling down	past	mouth	the pudding			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Theme
7	run away	past	mouth not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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