English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 44

Our little hero had some difficulty in lifting the burden upon his back; but he at last succeeded in getting it placed to his mind, and set forward on his journey.

Who acts: little hero, difficulty, burden, Tom · What happens: have, lift, succeed, get, place, set forward · To what, where: difficulty, burden, back

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 (little hero, difficulty, burden, 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hero	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hero	amod
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 difficulty	det
6	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 lifting	mark
8	lifting	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 difficulty	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 burden	det
10	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifting	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifting	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 journey	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 journey	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 journey	nsubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	33 journey	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 journey	amod
19	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 journey	csubj
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 getting	mark
21	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 succeeded	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 getting	obj
23	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 getting	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 mind	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mind	nmod:poss
26	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 set	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 set	cc
29	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 journey	csubj
30	forward	forward	ADV	_	29 set	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 journey	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 journey	nmod:poss
33	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Our little hero	some difficulty			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
2	lift	gerund	some difficulty not said here	the burden	Tom's back		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme upon back=Destination
3	succeed	participle					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	gerund		burden			tree rules
5	place	participle	burden not said here			to Tom's mind	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
6	set forward	past				forward property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	mind		Tom				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	journey		Tom				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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