English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 51
It was certainly very diverting to see Tom in this dress and mounted on the mouse, as he rode out a-hunting with the king and nobility, who were all ready to expire with laughter at Tom and his fine prancing charger.
Who acts: clothing, Tom, king · What happens: divert, see, mount, ride out, hunt, be · To what, where: Tom, dress
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 (clothing, Tom, king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 diverting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 diverting | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 diverting | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 diverting | advmod |
| 5 | diverting | divert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 diverting | xcomp |
| 8 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dress | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 dress | det |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mounted | cc |
| 13 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 dress | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 mouse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mouse | det |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mounted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rode | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 rode | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rode | nsubj |
| 20 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 diverting | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 rode | compound:prt |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rode | flat:foreign |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 a | punct |
| 24 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 rode | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hunting | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 nobility | cc |
| 29 | nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 king | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ready | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 ready | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 ready | cop |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 ready | advmod |
| 34 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 king | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 expire | mark |
| 36 | expire | expire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 ready | xcomp |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 laughter | case |
| 38 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 expire | obl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 Tom | case |
| 40 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 expire | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 charger | cc |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 charger | nmod:poss |
| 43 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 charger | amod |
| 44 | prancing | prancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 charger | compound |
| 45 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Tom | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 diverting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divert | past · progressive | clothing | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | clothing not said here | Tom | this dress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tom=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | mount | participle | clothing not said here | on the mouse | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on mouse=Destination | ||||
| 4 | ride out | past | Tom | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hunt | gerund | Tom not said here | with the king and nobility | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the king and nobility | all, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | expire | to-infinitive | the king and nobility not said here | Tom and Tom's fine prancing charger | with laughter | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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