English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 48
As Tom's clothes had suffered much in the batter-pudding, and the inside of the fish, his majesty ordered him a new suit of clothes, and to be mounted as a knight on a mouse.
Who acts: inside · What happens: suffer, order, mount · To what, where: clothes, batter pudding, new suit, Tom
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 (inside), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 suffered | mark |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Tom | case |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 suffered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 suffered | aux |
| 6 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 mounted | advcl |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 suffered | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pudding | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pudding | det |
| 10 | batter | batter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pudding | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 batter | punct |
| 12 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suffered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ordered | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 inside | det |
| 16 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ordered | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fish | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inside | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 majesty | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fish | appos |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 suffered | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ordered | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 suit | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 suit | amod |
| 27 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ordered | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 clothes | case |
| 29 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 27 suit | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mounted | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 mounted | cc |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 mounted | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 mounted | aux:pass |
| 34 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 knight | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 knight | det |
| 37 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mounted | obl |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 mouse | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 mouse | det |
| 40 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 knight | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past · perfect · passive | Tom's clothes | the batter pudding | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the inside of the fish | a new suit of clothes | Tom | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary suit=Theme | |||
| 3 | mount | to-infinitive · passive | as a knight on a mouse | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location» |
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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