The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 44

Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to go home again; for as he came he had taken care to drop all along the way the little white pebbles he had in his pockets.

Who acts: Little Thumb, children, Thumb · What happens: let, cry on, know, go, come, take · To what, where: children, care, way, little white pebbles, pockets · 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, children, 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thumb	amod
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 cry	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knowing	punct
8	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cry	advcl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 go	advmod
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 go	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 knowing	ccomp
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	advcl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 taken	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 taken	aux
23	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 came	parataxis
24	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 taken	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 drop	mark
26	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 taken	advcl
27	all	all	ADV	_	30 way	advmod
28	along	along	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drop	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pebbles	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pebbles	amod
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pebbles	amod
34	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 way	appos
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pebbles	acl:relcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 pockets	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 pockets	nmod:poss
39	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 had	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Little Thumb	children = child				tree rules
2	cry on speech: express	infinitive	children = child not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	gerund	children = child not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	to-infinitive				again	home, well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	Thumb					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	take	past · perfect	Thumb	care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
7	drop	to-infinitive	Thumb not said here		the way			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along way=Trajectory
8	have	past	Thumb	the little white pebbles not said here	Thumb's pockets			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Patient

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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