English Fairy Tales, XXV. Tom Thumb., sentence 4
“Tom Thumb” is “Le petit Poucet” of the French, “Daumling” of the Germans, and similar diminutive heroes elsewhere (_cf.
Who acts: Tom Thumb · What happens: be · To what, where: Le petit Poucet
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. 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 (Tom Thumb), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Thumb | punct |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Thumb | compound |
| 3 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Poucet | nsubj |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Thumb | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Poucet | cop |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Poucet | punct |
| 7 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Poucet | compound |
| 8 | petit | petit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Poucet | compound |
| 9 | Poucet | Poucet | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Poucet | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 French | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 French | det |
| 13 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Poucet | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Daumling | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Daumling | punct |
| 16 | Daumling | Daumling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Poucet | conj |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Daumling | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Germans | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Germans | det |
| 20 | Germans | German | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Daumling | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 heroes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 heroes | cc |
| 23 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heroes | amod |
| 24 | diminutive | diminutive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heroes | amod |
| 25 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Daumling | conj |
| 26 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 25 heroes | advmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 cf | punct |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 cf | punct |
| 29 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Daumling | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Poucet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Tom Thumb | Le petit Poucet and Daumling of the Germans and similar diminutive heroes and cf | of the French | 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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