English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 52
The king was so charmed with his address that he ordered a little chair to be made, in order that Tom might sit upon his table, and also a palace of gold, a span high, with a door an inch wide, to live in.
Who acts: king, Tom · What happens: charm, order, make, sit, live in, address · To what, where: king, little chair, order, table
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 (king, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charmed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 charmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 charmed | advmod |
| 5 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 address | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 address | nmod:poss |
| 8 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charmed | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 charmed | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chair | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chair | amod |
| 14 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 made | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chair | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 order | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 order | case |
| 20 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 sit | mark |
| 22 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sit | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 sit | aux |
| 24 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 order | acl |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 table | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 table | nmod:poss |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sit | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 palace | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 palace | cc |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 32 palace | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 palace | det |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charmed | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gold | case |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 palace | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 span | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 span | det |
| 37 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 palace | conj |
| 38 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 span | amod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 door | punct |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 door | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 door | det |
| 42 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charmed | obl |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 inch | det |
| 44 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 door | amod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 live | punct |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 live | mark |
| 48 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 charmed | parataxis |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 live | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 charmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | past · passive | the king | with king's address; with a door | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | order | past | king | a little chair | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | a little chair not said here | order | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||
| 4 | sit | might | Tom | order not said here | Tom's table | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent order=Theme upon table=Location | |||
| 5 | live in | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | address | king | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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