English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 46

Tom had travelled forty-eight hours with a huge silver-piece on his back, and was almost tired to death, when his mother ran out to meet him, and carried him into the house.

Who acts: Tom, mother · What happens: travell, be, run out, meet, carry · To what, where: Tom, house

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, mother), 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	3 travelled	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	aux
3	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eight	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 forty	punct
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hours	nummod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travelled	obl:unmarked
8	with	with	ADP	_	13 piece	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 piece	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 piece	amod
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piece	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 silver	punct
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travelled	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 back	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 back	nmod:poss
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piece	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tired	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	cop
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 tired	advmod
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 travelled	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tired	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 ran	advmod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ran	nsubj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 ran	compound:prt
30	to	to	PART	_	31 meet	mark
31	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ran	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 meet	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 carried	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 carried	cc
35	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carried	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 house	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 house	det
39	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 carried	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travell	past · perfect	Tom			hour	with a huge silver piece on Tom's back	tree rules
2	is	past					to death; almost, tired property	tree rules
3	run out	past	Tom's mother					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	to-infinitive	Tom's mother not said here	Tom				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	carry	past		Tom	the house			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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