The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 4

That which gave them yet more uneasiness was that the youngest was of a very puny constitution, and scarce ever spoke a word, which made them take that for stupidity which was a sign of good sense.

Who acts: That, more uneasiness, scarce, word, man, stupidity · What happens: give, be, speak, make, take · To what, where: man, word, that, sign · 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 (That, more uneasiness, scarce, word), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 gave	nsubj
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 uneasiness	amod
7	uneasiness	uneasiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 youngest	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 youngest	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 youngest	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youngest	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 constitution	amod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 constitution	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 constitution	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 constitution	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 puny	advmod
16	puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 constitution	amod
17	constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spoke	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spoke	cc
20	scarce	scarce	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spoke	nsubj
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 spoke	advmod
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 word	det
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spoke	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 word	acl:relcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	obj
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	xcomp
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 take	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 stupidity	case
32	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obl
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 sign	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sign	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sign	det
36	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stupidity	acl:relcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 sense	case
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sense	amod
39	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sign	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	That		man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past	more uneasiness				young property	tree rules
3	is	past					of a youngest puny constitution	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	past	scarce	a word		ever		tree rules
5	make	past	a word	man				tree rules
6	take	infinitive	man not said here	that			for stupidity	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for stupidity=Beneficiary
7	is a	past	stupidity	a sign			of good sense	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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