The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 133

They aver that when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre’s boots he went to Court, where he was informed that they were very much in pain about a certain army, which was two hundred leagues off, and the success of a battle.

Who acts: folks, Little Thumb, thumb, certain army · What happens: aver, take off, go, inform, be · To what, where: success, Court, boots, thumb, pain, hundred leagues · 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 (folks, Little Thumb, thumb, certain army), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 aver	nsubj
2	aver	aver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 taken	mark
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 taken	mark
5	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Thumb	amod
6	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 taken	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	aux
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 aver	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	13 boots	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ogre	det
11	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 boots	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Ogre	case
13	boots	boots	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Court	case
17	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 informed	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 informed	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 informed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 informed	aux:pass
22	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 went	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 pain	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pain	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pain	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADV	_	29 pain	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 pain	case
29	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 informed	ccomp
30	about	about	ADP	_	33 army	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 army	det
32	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 army	amod
33	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pain	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 leagues	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 leagues	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 leagues	cop
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hundred	compound
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 leagues	nummod
39	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 army	conj
40	off	off	ADV	_	39 leagues	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 success	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 success	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 success	det
44	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 aver	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 battle	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 battle	det
47	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 success	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 aver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	aver	present	folks = folk	the success of a battle				tree rules
2	take off	past · perfect	Little Thumb					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	thumb		Court	the Ogre's boots		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme off boots=Initial_Location to court=Destination
4	inform speech: other	past · passive		thumb				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	is	past	folks = folk			pain	about a certain army and hundred leagues	tree rules
6	is a	past	a certain army and hundred leagues	hundred leagues			off property	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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