The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 28

He was very little, and, when born, no bigger than one's thumb; which made him be called Little Thumb.

Who acts: scarce, thumb · What happens: be, bear, not be, make, call · To what, where: scarce · 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 (scarce, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 little	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 little	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bigger	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bigger	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 born	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 born	advmod
9	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bigger	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bigger	punct
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 bigger	advmod
12	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 little	conj
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 thumb	case
14	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thumb	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 one	case
16	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bigger	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thumb	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 made	xcomp
23	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Thumb	amod
24	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	scarce		little property	tree rules
2	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	not be		scarce not said here		than one's thumb	tree rules
4	make	past	one's thumb	scarce		tree rules
5	call	infinitive · passive	scarce not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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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