English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 37

When they opened the fish in order to cook it, every one was astonished at finding such a little boy, and Tom was quite delighted at being free again.

Who acts: shoes, one, Tom · What happens: open, cook, be, find · To what, where: fish, order, little boy

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 (shoes, one, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 opened	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 opened	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cook	mark
9	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 opened	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cook	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 astonished	punct
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 astonished	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 astonished	cop
15	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opened	conj
16	at	at	SCONJ	_	17 finding	mark
17	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 astonished	advcl
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 boy	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 finding	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 delighted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 delighted	cc
24	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 delighted	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 delighted	cop
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 delighted	advmod
27	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opened	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 free	case
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 free	cop
30	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 delighted	obl
31	again	again	ADV	_	27 delighted	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	shoes = shoe	the fish	order			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in order=Location
2	cook	to-infinitive	shoes = shoe not said here	fish				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	past	every one				astonished property	tree rules
4	find	gerund	every one not said here	such little boy				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
5	is	past	Tom			again	delighted property	tree rules
6	is	gerund					free property	tree rules

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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