The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 105
So soon as Little Thumb heard the Ogre snore, he waked his brothers, and bade them all put on their clothes presently and follow him.
Who acts: Little Thumb, thumb, brothers · What happens: hear, wake, put, follow · To what, where: Ogre snore, brothers, clothes, thumb
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. 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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 waked | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 4 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Thumb | amod |
| 5 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 waked | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 snore | det |
| 8 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 snore | compound |
| 9 | snore | snore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 waked | nsubj |
| 12 | waked | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 waked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 17 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | vocative |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 waked | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 clothes | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 put | obl |
| 24 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 follow | cc |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 put | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 follow | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 waked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Little Thumb | the Ogre snore | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snore=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | thumb | thumb's brothers | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | |||
| 3 | put | present | brothers = brother | brothers's clothes | bade vocative; all, presently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | |||
| 4 | follow | infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | thumb | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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