The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 128
So soon as Little Thumb heard the Ogre snore, he waked his brothers, and bade them put on their clothes presently, and follow him.
Who acts: Little Thumb, Thumb · What happens: hear, wake, bade, put, follow · To what, where: Ogre snore, brothers, clothes, Thumb
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Thumb, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 waked | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 4 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Thumb | amod |
| 5 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 waked | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 snore | det |
| 8 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 snore | compound |
| 9 | snore | snore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 waked | nsubj |
| 12 | waked | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 waked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bade | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bade | cc |
| 17 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 waked | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bade | obj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bade | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 clothes | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 put | obl |
| 23 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 19 put | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 follow | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 follow | cc |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 waked | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 follow | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 waked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Little Thumb | the Ogre snore | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snore=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | Thumb | Thumb's brothers | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | |||
| 3 | bade | past | Thumb not said here | brothers = brother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | participle | brothers's clothes | presently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 5 | follow | infinitive | Thumb not said here | Thumb | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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