The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 18

The fagot-maker began to cut wood, and the children to gather up the sticks to make fagots.

Who acts: fagot maker · What happens: begin, cut, gather up, make · To what, where: children, wood, sticks, fagots

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 (fagot maker), 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	4 maker	det
2	fagot	fagot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maker	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fagot	punct
4	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 children	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 children	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 gather	mark
14	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 gather	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sticks	det
17	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gather	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gather	advcl
20	fagots	fagot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	the fagot maker	the children	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cut	to-infinitive	the fagot maker not said here	wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
3	gather up	to-infinitive	the fagot maker not said here	the sticks	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	the fagot maker not said here	fagots	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fagot=Product

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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