English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 34

Tom's father made him a whip of a barley straw to drive the cattle with, and having one day gone into the fields, he slipped a foot and rolled into the furrow.

Who acts: father, Tom · What happens: make, drive, go, slip, roll · To what, where: whip, Tom, cattle, fields, foot, furrow

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 (father, 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 father	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tom	case
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	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 made	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whip	det
7	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 straw	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 straw	det
10	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 straw	compound
11	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whip	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drive	mark
13	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cattle	det
15	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drive	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	13 drive	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gone	cc
19	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 gone	aux
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	nummod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 having	obj
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 made	parataxis
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 fields	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fields	det
25	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gone	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 slipped	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 slipped	nsubj
28	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 foot	det
30	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 slipped	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rolled	cc
32	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 slipped	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 furrow	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 furrow	det
35	furrow	furrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rolled	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	make	past	Tom's father	a whip of a barley straw	Tom		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary whip=Product
2	drive	to-infinitive	Tom's father not said here	the cattle			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme
3	go	gerund · perfect				the fields	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
4	slip	past	Tom	a foot			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
5	roll	participle	Tom not said here			the furrow	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into furrow=Destination

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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