English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 41

Tom told the king that his father and mother were as tall as anybody about the court, but in rather poor circumstances.

Who acts: Tom, father · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: king, poor circumstances · 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 (Tom, father), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 tall	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tall	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mother	cc
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tall	cop
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 tall	advmod
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 anybody	case
14	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 tall	obl
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 court	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 court	det
17	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 anybody	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 circumstances	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 circumstances	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 circumstances	case
21	rather	rather	ADV	_	22 poor	advmod
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 circumstances	amod
23	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Tom		the king	poor circumstances			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
2	is	past	Tom's father and mother					as anybody; tall 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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