English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 59
The king received Tom again into favour, which he did not live to enjoy, for a large spider one day attacked him; and although he drew his sword and fought well, yet the spider's poisonous breath at last overcame him.
Who acts: king, large spider, poisonous breath · What happens: receive, not live, enjoy, attack, draw, fight · To what, where: Tom, favour, king, sword
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, large spider, poisonous breath), 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 | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 received | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 favour | case |
| 7 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 live | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 live | advmod |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 favour | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 enjoy | mark |
| 15 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 live | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spider | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 spider | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 spider | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spider | amod |
| 20 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enjoy | parataxis |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 day | nummod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attacked | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 spider | acl:relcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 attacked | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 drew | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drew | cc |
| 27 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 29 drew | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drew | nsubj |
| 29 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | parataxis |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sword | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drew | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fought | cc |
| 33 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 drew | conj |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 fought | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 breath | punct |
| 36 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 41 breath | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 spider | det |
| 38 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 breath | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 spider | case |
| 40 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 breath | amod |
| 41 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 overcame | nsubj |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 last | case |
| 43 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 breath | nmod |
| 44 | overcame | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 drew | conj |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 overcame | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the king | Tom | favour | again | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme | ||
| 2 | not live | past · do-support | king | favour | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | attack | past | a large spider not said here | king | day | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 5 | draw | past | king | king's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fight | past | king not said here | well property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | overcome | past | the spider's poisonous breath at last | king | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
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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