English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 56

The butterfly flew with him from tree to tree and from field to field, and at last returned to the court, where the king and nobility all strove to catch him; but at last poor Tom fell from his seat into a watering-pot, in which he was almost drowned.

Who acts: butterfly, king · What happens: fly, return, strive, catch, fall, drown · To what, where: tree, last, king, last poor 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 (butterfly, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butterfly	det
2	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 tree	case
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 tree	case
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 field	cc
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 field	case
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 field	case
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 field	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 returned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 returned	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 returned	obl
19	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flew	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 court	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 court	det
22	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 returned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 strove	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 strove	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 strove	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 nobility	cc
28	nobility	nobility	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 king	conj
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 strove	advmod
30	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 court	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 catch	mark
32	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 strove	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 catch	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 fell	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 fell	cc
36	at	at	ADP	_	39 Tom	case
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Tom	amod
38	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Tom	amod
39	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 fell	obl
40	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 seat	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 seat	nmod:poss
43	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fell	obl
44	into	into	ADP	_	48 pot	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 pot	det
46	watering	watering	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pot	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 watering	punct
48	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fell	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 drowned	punct
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 which	case
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 drowned	obl
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 drowned	nsubj:pass
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 drowned	aux:pass
54	almost	almost	ADV	_	55 drowned	advmod
55	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 fell	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the butterfly		tree	with Tom; to tree and field to field	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from tree=Initial_Location to tree=Destination
2	return	participle	the butterfly not said here		last	to the court result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result
3	strive	past	the king and nobility			all property	tree rules
4	catch	to-infinitive	the king and nobility not said here	king			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	fall	past	the butterfly not said here		last poor Tom	from king's seat; into a watering pot	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location into pot=Destination
6	drown	past · passive		king		almost property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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