--- title: So she took up the thimble, meaning to catch him, but Tom Thumb hid… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: So she took up the thimble, meaning to catch him, but Tom Thumb hid himself amongst the shreds of cloth, and when she began to search through those, he slipped into a crack in the table, but put out his head to laugh at her; so she tried again to hit him with the shred, but did not succeed in doing --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/22/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Travels of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/22/) / 14 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 14 So she took up the thimble, meaning to catch him, but Tom Thumb hid himself amongst the shreds of cloth, and when she began to search through those, he slipped into a crack in the table, but put out his head to laugh at her; so she tried again to hit him with the shred, but did not succeed in doing so, for he slipped through the crack into the table drawer. **Who acts:** woman, Tom Thumb, grasshopper · **What happens:** take up, mean, catch, hide, begin, search · **To what, where:** thimble, grasshopper, shreds, those, crack, head This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels 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 (woman, Tom Thumb, grasshopper), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:22:14 # text = So she took up the thimble, meaning to catch him, but Tom Thumb hid himself amongst the shreds of cloth, and when she began to search through those, he slipped into a crack in the table, but put out his head to laugh at her; so she tried again to hit him with the shred, but did not succeed in doing so, for he slipped through the crack into the table drawer. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 thimble thimble NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Thumb Thumb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 shreds shred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 search search VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 44 out out ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 49 at at ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ; ; PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 so so ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 53 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 55 again again ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 56 to to PART TO _ 57 mark _ _ 57 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 xcomp _ _ 58 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ _ 59 with with ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 shred shred NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 63 but but CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 64 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 66 aux _ _ 65 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 66 advmod _ _ 66 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 67 in in SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ _ 68 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 66 advcl _ _ 69 so so ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 71 for for SCONJ IN _ 73 mark _ _ 72 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 73 nsubj _ _ 73 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 74 through through ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 75 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 76 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obl _ _ 77 into into ADP IN _ 80 case _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 80 det _ _ 79 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 80 compound _ _ 80 drawer drawer NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 81 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take up** | past | woman | the thimble | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | gerund | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | grasshopper | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **hide** | past | Tom Thumb | grasshopper | | the shreds of cloth | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient amongst shred=Location | | 5 | **begin** | past | woman | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **search** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | | | those | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through that=Location | | 7 | **slip** | past | grasshopper | | | a crack | | in the table | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in table=Attribute | | 8 | **put out** | infinitive | grasshopper *not said here* | grasshopper's head | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | | 9 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | grasshopper *not said here* | | | | | at woman | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **try** | past | woman | | | | again | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 11 | **hit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | grasshopper | | | | with the shred | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with shred=Instrument | | 12 | **not** **succeed** | past · do-support | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 13 | **do** | gerund | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 14 | **slip** | past | grasshopper | | | the crack | | into the table drawer | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/22/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/22/15/) - ↑ back to [The Travels of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/22/)