English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 39
It is said that when the king rode out on horseback, he often took Tom along with him, and if a shower came on, he used to creep into his majesty's waistcoat-pocket, where he slept till the rain was over.
Who acts: king, shower, Tom, rain · What happens: say, ride out, take, come on, use, creep · To what, where: favourite, horseback, Tom, waistcoat pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, shower, Tom, rain), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 rode | mark |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 rode | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | nsubj |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 rode | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 horseback | case |
| 11 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 16 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 used | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 used | cc |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 shower | det |
| 24 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 used | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 used | nsubj |
| 29 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 creep | mark |
| 31 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 used | xcomp |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 pocket | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 34 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 majesty | case |
| 36 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pocket | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 waistcoat | punct |
| 38 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 creep | obl | ||
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 slept | punct |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 slept | advmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 slept | nsubj |
| 42 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 pocket | acl:relcl |
| 43 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 47 over | mark |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 rain | det |
| 45 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 over | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 over | cop |
| 47 | over | over | ADV | _ | 42 slept | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | favourite | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ride out | past | the king | horseback | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | king | Tom | with Tom; along, often property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument tom=Destination | |||
| 4 | come on a condition, not said to happen | past | a shower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | use | past | Tom | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | creep | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | Tom's majesty's waistcoat pocket | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pocket=Destination | ||||
| 7 | sleep | past | Tom | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | past | the rain | over 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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