English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 27
The cow soon observed Tom's oak-leaf hat, and liking the appearance of it, took poor Tom and the thistle at one mouthful.
Who acts: cow, liking · What happens: observe, like, take · To what, where: oak leaf hat, appearance, poor Tom, one mouthful
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 (cow, liking), 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 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 observed | advmod |
| 4 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Tom | case |
| 7 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hat | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 oak | punct |
| 9 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hat | compound |
| 10 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 observed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 13 | liking | like | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 took | csubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 appearance | det |
| 15 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 liking | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 appearance | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 liking | punct |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 observed | conj |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Tom | amod |
| 21 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thistle | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thistle | det |
| 24 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Tom | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 mouthful | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 mouthful | nummod |
| 27 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | the cow | Tom's oak leaf hat | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hat=Topic | |||
| 2 | like | gerund | the appearance of appearance | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot appearance=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | liking | poor Tom and the thistle | one mouthful | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent tom=Theme at mouthful=Asset |
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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