The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 131

There are many people who do not agree in this circumstance, and pretend that Little Thumb never robbed the Ogre at all, and that he only thought he might very justly, and with a safe conscience, take off his boots of seven leagues, because he made no other use of them but to run after little children.

Who acts: many people, Little Thumb, thumb · What happens: be, not agree, pretend, not rob, think, take off · To what, where: circumstance, Ogre, all, boots, other use, people · 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 (many people, Little Thumb, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 agree	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 agree	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 agree	advmod
8	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 people	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 circumstance	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 circumstance	det
11	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 agree	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pretend	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pretend	cc
14	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 robbed	mark
16	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Thumb	amod
17	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 robbed	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 robbed	advmod
19	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pretend	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Ogre	det
21	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 robbed	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 robbed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thought	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 thought	advmod
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 robbed	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 justly	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 justly	aux
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 justly	advmod
33	justly	justly	ADV	_	29 thought	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 take	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 take	cc
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 conscience	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 conscience	det
38	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 conscience	amod
39	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 conscience	punct
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 thought	ccomp
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 take	compound:prt
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 boots	nmod:poss
44	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 take	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 leagues	case
46	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 leagues	nummod
47	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 boots	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 made	punct
49	because	because	SCONJ	_	51 made	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 made	nsubj
51	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 take	parataxis
52	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	54 use	det
53	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 use	amod
54	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 them	case
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 use	nmod
57	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 run	cc
58	to	to	PART	_	59 run	mark
59	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 made	conj
60	after	after	ADP	_	62 children	case
61	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 children	amod
62	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 run	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	many people		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not agree speech: agree	present · do-support	many people		this circumstance			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	present						tree rules
4	not rob	past	Little Thumb	the Ogre	all			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Source
5	think speech: other	past	thumb					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	take off	infinitive		thumb's boots of seven leagues			with a safe conscience	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
7	make	past	thumb	no other use of people				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
8	run	to-infinitive	thumb not said here			after little children		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	use			people				nom use «act transitive»: of=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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