The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 36

Little Thumb heard every word that had been spoken; for observing, as he lay in his bed, that they were talking very busily, he had got up softly and hid himself under his father's stool, that he might hear what they said, without being seen.

Who acts: Little Thumb, Thumb, words · What happens: hear, speak, observe, lie, talk, get up · To what, where: word, bed, Thumb, stool · 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 (Little Thumb, Thumb, words), 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	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 spoken	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spoken	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 spoken	aux:pass
9	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 word	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 observing	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 observing	mark
12	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 lay	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bed	nmod:poss
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 talking	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 talking	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 talking	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 talking	aux
24	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lay	advcl
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 busily	advmod
26	busily	busily	ADV	_	24 talking	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 got	aux
30	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 heard	parataxis
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 got	compound:prt
32	softly	softly	ADV	_	30 got	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hid	cc
34	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 hid	obj
36	under	under	ADP	_	40 stool	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 father	nmod:poss
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stool	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 father	case
40	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hid	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hear	punct
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 hear	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 hear	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 hear	aux
45	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 hid	advcl
46	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 said	obj
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 said	nsubj
48	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 hear	ccomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 seen	punct
50	without	without	SCONJ	_	52 seen	mark
51	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 seen	aux:pass
52	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 said	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Little Thumb	every word			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		every word			tree rules
3	observe	gerund	Little Thumb not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	lie	past	Thumb		Thumb's bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
5	talk	past · progressive	words = word			busily property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get up	past · perfect	Thumb			softly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	hide	past	Little Thumb not said here	Thumb	Thumb's father's stool		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient under stool=Location
8	hear	might	Thumb				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	say speech: assert	past	words = word				tree rules
10	see	gerund · passive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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