--- title: He still, however, slept on, and did not awake till he found himself… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He still, however, slept on, and did not awake till he found himself in the mouth of the cow; for the cook had put the hay into the cow’s rick, and the cow had taken Tom up in a mouthful of it. Who acts: man, cow. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, cow), 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:pg2591:25:67 # text = He still, however, slept on, and did not awake till he found himself in the mouth of the cow; for the cook had put the hay into the cow’s rick, and the cow had taken Tom up in a mouthful of it. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 however however ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 13 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 rick rick NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 42 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 mouthful mouthful NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep on** | past | man | | | | still | however *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **find** | past | man | man | | the mouth of the cow | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 3 | **put** | past · perfect | man *not said here* | the hay | | the cow's rick | | for the cook | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hay=Goal | | 4 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | | the cow | | a mouthful of hay | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme tom=Destination | | 5 | **rick** | | the cow | | | | | | nom rick «state transitive»: 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/68/) - ↑ back to [Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/)