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title: A short time afterwards his mother was making a batter-pudding, and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A short time afterwards his mother was making a batter-pudding, and Tom, being very anxious to see how it was made, climbed up to the edge of the bowl; but his foot slipped, and he plumped over head and ears into the batter, without his mother noticing him, who stirred him into the pudding-bag, and 
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# English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 19

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A short time afterwards his mother was making a batter-pudding, and Tom, being very anxious to see how it was made, climbed up to the edge of the bowl; but his foot slipped, and he plumped over head and ears into the batter, without his mother noticing him, who stirred him into the pudding-bag, and put him in the pot to boil.

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**Who acts:** mother, Tom, foot, boy · **What happens:** make, be, see, climb up, slip, plump · **To what, where:** batter pudding, pudding, edge, head, boy, pot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mother, Tom, foot, boy), 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:pg7439:28:19
# text = A short time afterwards his mother was making a batter-pudding, and Tom, being very anxious to see how it was made, climbed up to the edge of the bowl; but his foot slipped, and he plumped over head and ears into the batter, without his mother noticing him, who stirred him into the pudding-bag, and put him in the pot to boil.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
15	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
27	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	plumped	plump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	without	without	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	parataxis	_	_
55	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	54	acl	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj	_	_
59	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	parataxis	_	_
60	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	into	into	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
63	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
68	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
69	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	obj	_	_
70	in	in	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obl	_	_
73	to	to	PART	TO	_	74	mark	_	_
74	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	68	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · progressive | boy's mother | a batter pudding |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Product |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive |  | pudding |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **climb up** | past | Tom |  |  | the edge of the bowl |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination |
| 6 | **slip** | past | boy's foot |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **plump** | past | boy |  |  | head and ears |  | into the batter | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **notice** | gerund | boy's mother *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 9 | **stir** | past | boy's mother | boy |  |  |  | into the pudding bag | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient into bag=Co-Patient |
| 10 | **put** | infinitive | boy's foot *not said here* | boy |  | the pot |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pot=Destination |
| 11 | **boil** | to-infinitive | boy's foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «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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