English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 32
Fortunately his mother caught him in her apron as he was falling to the ground, or he would have been dreadfully hurt.
Who acts: mother, Tommy · What happens: catch, fall, hurt · To what, where: Tommy, apron
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, Tommy), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 4 caught | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 apron | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 apron | nmod:poss |
| 8 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 falling | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 falling | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 falling | aux |
| 12 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 caught | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 falling | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hurt | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 hurt | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hurt | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hurt | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hurt | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 hurt | aux:pass |
| 22 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 23 hurt | advmod |
| 23 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 caught | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Tommy's mother | Tommy | mother's apron | fortunately property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | fall | past · progressive | Tommy | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurt | would · perfect · passive | Tommy | dreadfully property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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