English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 53
He also gave him a coach, drawn by six small mice.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: give, draw · To what, where: coach, king
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 coach | det |
| 6 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drawn | punct |
| 8 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 coach | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 mice | case |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 mice | nummod |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mice | amod |
| 12 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drawn | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Tom | a coach | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coach=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | participle | a coach not said here | by six small mice | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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