English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 45

However, without meeting with any accident, and after resting himself more than a hundred times by the way, in two days and two nights he reached his father's house in safety.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: meet, rest, reach · To what, where: Tom, house, safety

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	However	however	ADV	_	4 meeting	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 meeting	mark
4	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 accident	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 accident	det
7	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meeting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 resting	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 resting	cc
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 resting	mark
11	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 meeting	parataxis
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 resting	obj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	16 hundred	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 more	fixed
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hundred	det
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 times	nummod
17	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 resting	obl:unmarked
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 resting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 days	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 days	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 resting	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 nights	cc
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 nights	nummod
27	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 days	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 reached	nsubj
29	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 nights	acl:relcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 house	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 father	case
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reached	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 safety	case
35	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 house	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meeting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	gerund					with any accident; however property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with accident=Co-Agent
2	rest	gerund		Tom		day; time	by the way	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by way=Location
3	reach	past	Tom	Tom's father's house	safety			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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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