English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 43

Tom went immediately to procure a purse, which was made of a water-bubble, and then returned to the treasury, where he received a silver threepenny-piece to put into it.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: go, procure, make, return, receive, put · To what, where: purse, silver threepenny piece, treasury

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), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 procure	mark
5	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 purse	det
7	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 procure	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 made	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 purse	acl:relcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 bubble	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bubble	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bubble	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
16	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 returned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 returned	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 returned	advmod
20	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 treasury	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 treasury	det
23	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 returned	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 received	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 received	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 received	nsubj
27	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 treasury	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 piece	det
29	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 piece	amod
30	threepenny	threepenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 piece	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 threepenny	punct
32	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 received	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 put	mark
34	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 piece	acl
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tom				immediately property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	procure	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	a purse				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
3	make	past · passive		a purse			of a water bubble	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	return	past	Tom not said here			then	to the treasury result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to treasury=Result
5	receive	past	Tom	a silver threepenny piece				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
6	put	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	a silver threepenny piece not said here	treasury			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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