The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 15
He got up early in the morning, and went to the river-side, where he filled his pockets full of small white pebbles, and then returned home.
Who acts: thumb · What happens: get up, go, fill, return · To what, where: river side, pockets
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 got | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 river | punct |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 filled | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 filled | nsubj |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 21 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 filled | obj | |
| 22 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 filled | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pebbles | case |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pebbles | amod |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pebbles | amod |
| 26 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 full | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 returned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 returned | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 returned | advmod |
| 30 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 30 returned | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | thumb | morning | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | go | past | the river side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | fill | past | thumb | thumb's pockets | full property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient | |||
| 4 | return | past | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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