The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 124
Little Thumb came up to the Ogre, pulled off his boots gently and put them on his own legs.
Who acts: Little Thumb · What happens: come up, pull off, put · To what, where: Ogre, boots, own legs
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), 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 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Ogre | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ogre | det |
| 7 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 pulled | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 boots | nmod:poss |
| 12 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pulled | obj |
| 13 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 9 pulled | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pulled | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 legs | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 legs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 legs | amod |
| 20 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Little Thumb | the Ogre | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ogre=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pull off | past | ogre's boots | gently property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | boots = boot | ogre's own legs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on leg=Destination |
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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