The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 69

They could not talk of this so secretly, but they were overheard by Little Thumb, who made account to get out of this difficulty as well as the former; but though he got up betimes in the morning, to go and pick up some little pebbles, he was disappointed; for he found the house-door double-locked, and was at a stand what to do.

Who acts: children, Little Thumb, Thumb · What happens: not talk, overhear, make, get out, get up, go · To what, where: children, account, difficulty, little pebbles, house door, stand

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 (children, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talk	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 talk	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 secretly	advmod
8	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 overheard	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 overheard	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 overheard	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 overheard	aux:pass
13	overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 talk	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 Thumb	case
15	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Thumb	amod
16	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 overheard	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
18	who	who	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	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 difficulty	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 difficulty	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 difficulty	det
26	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obl
27	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	31 former	cc
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 as	fixed
29	as	as	ADP	_	27 as	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 former	det
31	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 difficulty	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 disappointed	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 disappointed	cc
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 got	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 got	nsubj
36	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 disappointed	advcl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 got	compound:prt
38	betimes	betimes	ADV	_	36 got	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 morning	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 morning	det
41	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 got	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
43	to	to	PART	_	44 go	mark
44	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 got	parataxis
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 pick	cc
46	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	44 go	conj
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 pick	compound:prt
48	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	50 pebbles	det
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 pebbles	amod
50	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 pick	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 got	punct
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 disappointed	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 disappointed	cop
54	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talk	conj
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 found	punct
56	for	for	SCONJ	_	58 found	mark
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 found	nsubj
58	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	parataxis
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 door	det
60	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 door	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 house	punct
62	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 found	obj
63	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 locked	amod
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 double	punct
65	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 found	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 stand	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 stand	cc
68	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 stand	cop
69	at	at	ADP	_	71 stand	case
70	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 stand	det
71	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 found	obl
72	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	74 do	obj
73	to	to	PART	_	74 do	mark
74	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 stand	acl:relcl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	could	children = child				of this; secretly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	overhear	past · passive	Little Thumb	children = child				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
3	make	past	Little Thumb	account				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Product
4	get out	to-infinitive	Little Thumb not said here	this difficulty				tree rules
5	get up	past	Thumb			morning	betimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	go	to-infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pick up	infinitive		some little pebbles				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic
8	is	past	Thumb				disappointed property	tree rules
9	find	past	Thumb	the house door				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic
10	lock	participle	Thumb not said here					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
11	is	past			a stand			tree rules
12	do	to-infinitive	Thumb not said here	a stand				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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