English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 8
Accordingly, in a short time after, the ploughman's wife had a son, who, wonderful to relate! was not a bit bigger than his father's thumb.
Who acts: wife · What happens: have, relate, not be · To what, where: son, bit
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 (wife), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 13 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 7 | after | after | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ploughman | det |
| 10 | ploughman | ploughman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 ploughman | case |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wonderful | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 wonderful | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wonderful | punct |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 son | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 relate | mark |
| 21 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wonderful | advcl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 bit | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bit | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 bit | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bit | det |
| 26 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 relate | obl |
| 27 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 bit | amod |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 thumb | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 father | case |
| 32 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bigger | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the ploughman's wife | a son | time | accordingly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive | the ploughman's wife not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is a | past | a bit | tree rules |
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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