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title: Then Tom sprang up on to the hob, and peeped into all the dishes, bu… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Tom sprang up on to the hob, and peeped into all the dishes, but over one he leant so far, that he was carried up by the steam through the chimney, and then for some distance he floated on the smoke, but after a while he fell upon the ground once more. Who acts: Tom, steam. A sentence of «Grimm
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 9

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Then Tom sprang up on to the hob, and peeped into all the dishes, but over one he leant so far, that he was carried up by the steam through the chimney, and then for some distance he floated on the smoke, but after a while he fell upon the ground once more.

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**Who acts:** Tom, steam · **What happens:** spring up, peep, leant, carry up, float, fall · **To what, where:** hob, Tom, chimney, distance, smoke, ground

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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 (Tom, steam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11027:22:9
# text = Then Tom sprang up on to the hob, and peeped into all the dishes, but over one he leant so far, that he was carried up by the steam through the chimney, and then for some distance he floated on the smoke, but after a while he fell upon the ground once more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hob	hob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	leant	leant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	after	after	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
54	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	58	advmod	_	_
58	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring up** | past | Tom |  |  | the hob | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hob=Location |
| 2 | **peep** | participle | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into all dishes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into dish=Theme |
| 3 | **leant** |  | Tom |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry up** | past · passive | the steam | Tom |  | the chimney |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **float** | past | Tom | some distance *not said here* |  | the smoke |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent distance=Theme on smoke=Trajectory |
| 6 | **fall** | past | Tom |  |  | the ground | then; while |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location |

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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.

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**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.

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