The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 147

Little Thumb was not so much frightened as his brothers, and told them that they should run away immediately towards home, while the Ogre was asleep so soundly; and that they should not be anxious about him.

Who acts: brothers, Ogre · What happens: frighten, tell, run away, be, not be · To what, where: Little Thumb, brothers, home · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brothers, Ogre), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thumb	amod
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 much	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 frightened	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 run	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 run	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 run	aux
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 run	advmod
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	18 run	advmod
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	22 home	case
22	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 run	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 asleep	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 asleep	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Ogre	det
26	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 asleep	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 asleep	cop
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	parataxis
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 soundly	advmod
30	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	28 asleep	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 anxious	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 anxious	cc
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 anxious	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 anxious	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 anxious	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 anxious	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 anxious	cop
38	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frightened	conj
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 anxious	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		Little Thumb			as Thumb's brothers	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past			brothers = brother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	run away not said to happen	should	brothers = brother			home	away, immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards home=Destination
4	is	past	the Ogre				asleep, soundly property	tree rules
5	not is	should	brothers = brother				about Ogre; anxious property	tree rules

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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