The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 129

The good woman, being sadly frightened, gave him all she had: for this Ogre was a very good husband, though he used to eat up little children.

Who acts: good woman, woman, this, thumb · What happens: be, give, have, use, eat up · To what, where: good woman, all, thumb, little children

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 (good woman, woman, this, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 frightened	punct
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 frightened	cop
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 woman	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 gave	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 all	acl:relcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 husband	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	22 husband	case
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 husband	nsubj
17	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 husband	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 husband	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 husband	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 good	advmod
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 husband	amod
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 used	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 used	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 used	nsubj
26	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 used	xcomp
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 eat	compound:prt
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 children	amod
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eat	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund		the good woman not said here		frighten, sadly property	tree rules
2	give	past	the good woman	all	thumb		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Theme
3	have	past	woman				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	this			for a good husband	tree rules
5	use	past	thumb				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	eat up	to-infinitive	thumb not said here	little children			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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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