English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 50
A needle dangled by his side; A dapper mouse he used to ride, Thus strutted Tom in stately pride!
Who acts: needle · What happens: dangle, use, ride, strut · To what, where: needle, Tom, stately pride
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 (needle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 needle | det |
| 2 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 used | nsubj |
| 3 | dangled | dangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 needle | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 side | nmod:poss |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dangled | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 9 | dapper | dapper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouse | compound |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 used | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 used | nsubj |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ride | mark |
| 14 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strutted | punct |
| 16 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 strutted | advmod |
| 17 | strutted | strut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ride | conj |
| 18 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 strutted | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pride | case |
| 20 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pride | amod |
| 21 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strutted | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dangle | participle | a needle not said here | by needle's side | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | past | a needle | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ride | to-infinitive | a needle not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | strut | participle | a needle not said here | Tom | stately pride | thus property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tom=Theme in pride=Trajectory |
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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