English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 31

His mother began to cry and wring her hands; but the cow, surprised at the odd noise in her throat, opened her mouth and let Tom drop out.

Who acts: mother, cow, Tom · What happens: begin, cry, wring, surprise, open, let · To what, where: hands, cow, odd noise, mouth, Tom

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 (mother, cow, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cry	mark
5	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wring	cc
7	wring	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cry	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wring	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 opened	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 opened	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cow	det
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 opened	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 surprised	punct
15	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cow	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 noise	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 noise	det
18	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 noise	amod
19	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surprised	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 throat	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 throat	nmod:poss
22	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 noise	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cow	punct
24	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mouth	nmod:poss
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 opened	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 let	cc
28	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 opened	conj
29	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 let	obj
30	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 drop	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	Tommy's mother			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Tommy's mother not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wring	infinitive	Tommy's mother not said here	mother's hands		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	surprise	participle		the cow not said here	the odd noise in mother's throat	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	open	past	the cow	mother's mouth		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
6	let	infinitive	the cow not said here	Tom		tree rules
7	drop out	infinitive	Tom not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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