The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 72

Little Thumb was not very uneasy at it; for he thought he could easily find the way again, by means of his bread which he had scattered all along as he came.

Who acts: Little Thumb, Thumb · What happens: not be, think, find, mean, scatter, come · To what, where: path, way, bread · 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), 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	6 uneasy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 uneasy	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 uneasy	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 uneasy	advmod
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 uneasy	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 thought	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 uneasy	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	16 find	advmod
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 find	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 means	case
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 find	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bread	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bread	nmod:poss
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 means	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 scattered	nsubj:pass
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 scattered	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 scattered	aux
29	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 bread	acl:relcl
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 along	advmod
31	along	along	ADV	_	29 scattered	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 along	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 uneasy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Little Thumb		path		uneasy property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Thumb					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	find	could	Thumb	the way		again	easily property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	mean	present					of Thumb's bread	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	scatter	past · perfect · passive		Thumb's bread			along property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
6	come	past	Thumb					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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