The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 122

Little Thumb was not so much frightened as his brothers, and told them that they should run away immediately toward home while the Ogre was asleep so soundly, and that they should not be in any pain about him.

Who acts: brothers, Ogre · What happens: frighten, tell, run away, be, not be · To what, where: Little Thumb, brothers, home, pain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brothers, Ogre), 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	7 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 much	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 frightened	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 run	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 run	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 run	aux
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 run	advmod
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	18 run	advmod
21	toward	toward	ADP	_	22 home	case
22	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 run	obl
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 asleep	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Ogre	det
25	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 asleep	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 asleep	cop
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 run	advcl
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 soundly	advmod
29	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	27 asleep	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pain	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 pain	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 pain	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pain	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 pain	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 pain	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 pain	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 pain	case
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 pain	det
39	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obl
40	about	about	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pain	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		Little Thumb			as thumb's brothers	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past			brothers = brother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	run away not said to happen	should	brothers = brother			home	away, immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward home=Trajectory
4	is	past	the Ogre				asleep, soundly property	tree rules
5	not is	should	brothers = brother			any pain	about ogre	tree rules

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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