English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 23
The pudding being broke to pieces by the fall, Tom crept out covered all over with the batter, and walked home.
Who acts: pudding, Tom · What happens: be, creep out, cover, walk
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 (pudding, Tom), 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 pudding | det |
| 2 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 broke | cop |
| 4 | broke | broke | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 pieces | case |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 broke | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 fall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fall | det |
| 9 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crept | punct |
| 11 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 crept | nsubj |
| 12 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 crept | advmod |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 crept | xcomp |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 over | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 covered | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 batter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 batter | det |
| 19 | batter | batter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 walked | cc |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 crept | conj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 walked | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the pudding | to pieces; by the fall; broke property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creep out | past | Tom | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | Tom not said here | with the batter; over property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with batter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | Tom not said here | home 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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