The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 21

Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to get home again, for, as he came, he took care to drop all along the way the little white pebbles he had in his pockets.

Who acts: Little Thumb, children, thumb · What happens: let, cry on, know, get, come, care · To what, where: children, way, little white pebbles, pockets · 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 (Little Thumb, children, 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thumb	amod
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 cry	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knowing	punct
8	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cry	advcl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 get	advmod
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 get	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 knowing	ccomp
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 get	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 care	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 care	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 care	aux
25	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 drop	mark
27	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 care	xcomp
28	all	all	ADV	_	27 drop	advmod
29	along	along	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drop	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pebbles	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pebbles	amod
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pebbles	amod
35	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 way	appos
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pebbles	acl:relcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 pockets	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 pockets	nmod:poss
40	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 had	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Little Thumb	children = child				tree rules
2	cry on speech: express	infinitive	children = child not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	gerund	children = child not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	get	to-infinitive				again	home, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	come	past	thumb					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	care	past	thumb					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	drop	to-infinitive	thumb not said here		the way		all property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along way=Trajectory
8	have	past	thumb	the little white pebbles not said here	thumb's pockets			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=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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