English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 7

Merlin was so much amused with the idea of a boy no bigger than a man's thumb, that he determined to grant the poor woman's wish.

Who acts: Merlin, poor woman · What happens: amuse, determine, grant, wish · To what, where: Merlin, wish

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 (Merlin, poor woman), 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	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 amused	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 amused	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 amused	advmod
5	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 idea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 idea	det
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 amused	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 boy	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 idea	nmod
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 bigger	advmod
13	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 boy	amod
14	than	than	ADP	_	18 thumb	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thumb	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 man	case
18	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bigger	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 determined	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 determined	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 determined	nsubj
22	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 amused	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 grant	mark
24	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 determined	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 woman	det
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 woman	amod
27	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wish	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 woman	case
29	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grant	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	amuse	past · passive		Merlin	with the idea of a boy	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	determine	past	Merlin			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grant	to-infinitive	Merlin not said here	the poor woman's wish		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
4	wish		the poor woman			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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