The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 119

Little Thumb, seeing a hollow rock near the place where they were, made his brothers hide themselves in it, and crowded into it himself, minding always what would become of the Ogre.

Who acts: children, Little Thumb · What happens: see, be, hide, crowd, mind, become · To what, where: hollow rock, place, children, 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 (children, Little 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	18 hide	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thumb	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 hide	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rock	det
6	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rock	amod
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeing	obj
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeing	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 made	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 place	acl:relcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	obj
18	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 hide	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hide	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 crowded	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 crowded	cc
24	crowded	crowd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 hide	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 crowded	obl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 crowded	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 minding	punct
29	minding	mind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 crowded	advcl
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 what	advmod
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 become	obj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 become	aux
33	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 minding	ccomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Ogre	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Ogre	det
36	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 become	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		a hollow rock	the place		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus
2	is	past	children = child			make property	tree rules
3	hide	present	Little Thumb	children = child	place		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in it=Location
4	crowd	participle	Little Thumb not said here	thumb	place		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
5	mind	gerund	Little Thumb not said here				vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	become	would	Little Thumb not said here			of the Ogre	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result

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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