English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 62
Here lies Tom Thumb, King Arthur's knight, Who died by a spider's cruel bite.
Who acts: knight, spider · What happens: lie, die, bite · To what, where: 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 (knight, spider), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 lies | advmod |
| 2 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obj |
| 4 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tom | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knight | punct |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Arthur | compound |
| 7 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 knight | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Arthur | case |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tom | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 died | punct |
| 11 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knight | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 bite | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spider | det |
| 15 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bite | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 spider | case |
| 17 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bite | amod |
| 18 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Tom | here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past | King Arthur's knight | by a spider's cruel bite | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bite | a spider | nom bite «state 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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