English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 36
A large fish swallowed Tom the moment he fell into the sea, which was soon after caught, and bought for the table of King Arthur.
Who acts: large fish, Tom · What happens: swallow, fall, catch, buy · To what, where: Tom, moment, sea
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 (large fish, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swallowed | nsubj |
| 4 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swallowed | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swallowed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moment | acl:relcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | aux:pass |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 caught | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 caught | mark |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sea | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bought | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bought | cc |
| 21 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swallowed | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 table | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 table | det |
| 24 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bought | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Arthur | case |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Arthur | compound |
| 27 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 table | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | a large fish | Tom | moment | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Patient | |||
| 2 | fall | past | Tom | the moment not said here | the sea | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient moment=Result | |||
| 3 | catch | past · passive | the sea | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | buy | participle | a large fish not said here | for the table of King Arthur | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for table=Beneficiary |
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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