The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 16

They all went abroad, but Little Thumb never told his brothers one syllable of what he knew.

Who acts: pockets, Little Thumb, thumb · What happens: go, not tell, know · To what, where: brothers · 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 (pockets, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
7	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Thumb	amod
8	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brothers	nmod:poss
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	iobj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 syllable	nummod
14	syllable	syllable	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 what	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 syllable	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	pockets = pocket		abroad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	past	Little Thumb	thumb's brothers		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient
3	know	past	thumb			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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