The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 73

But he was very much surprised when he could not find so much as one crumb; the birds had come and eaten it up every bit.

Who acts: Thumb, birds · What happens: be, not find, come, eat up · To what, where: much, crumb

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 (Thumb, birds), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 surprised	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 find	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 find	advmod
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 surprised	advcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 find	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 crumb	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 crumb	nummod
16	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 much	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 surprised	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eaten	cc
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 come	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 eaten	compound:prt
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 bit	det
27	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eaten	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Thumb		surprised property	tree rules
2	not find	could	Thumb	much	as one crumb	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme as crumb=Attribute
3	come	past · perfect	the birds			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat up	participle	the birds not said here	crumb	every bit obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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