The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 83

Little Thumb told her they were poor children who had been lost in the forest, and desired to lodge there for God's sake.

Who acts: Little Thumb, brothers · What happens: tell, be, lose, desire, lodge · To what, where: woman, poor children, forest · 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, brothers), 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 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 children	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 children	cop
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	ccomp
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lost	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 lost	aux:pass
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 children	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 desired	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 desired	cc
18	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lodge	mark
20	lodge	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 desired	xcomp
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 lodge	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 sake	case
23	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sake	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 God	case
25	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lodge	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Little Thumb		woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	past	brothers = brother	poor children				tree rules
3	lose	past · perfect · passive		poor children		the forest		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	desire	participle						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	lodge not said to happen	to-infinitive				there	for God's sake	vn pocket-9.10-1 «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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