The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 47

They could not talk of this so secretly but they were overheard by Little Thumb, who made account to get out of this difficulty as well as the former; but, though he got up very early in the morning to go and pick up some little pebbles, he was disappointed, for he found the house-door double-locked, and was at a stand what to do.

Who acts: folks, Little Thumb, thumb · What happens: not talk, overhear, make, get out, get up, go · To what, where: folks, account, difficulty, little pebbles, house door, stand

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 (folks, 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	4 talk	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 talk	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 secretly	advmod
8	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 overheard	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 overheard	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 overheard	aux:pass
12	overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 talk	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 Thumb	case
14	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Thumb	amod
15	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 overheard	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Thumb	acl:relcl
19	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 difficulty	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 difficulty	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 difficulty	det
25	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl
26	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	30 former	cc
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 as	fixed
28	as	as	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 former	det
30	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 difficulty	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 disappointed	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 disappointed	cc
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 but	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 got	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 got	nsubj
36	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 disappointed	advcl
37	up	up	ADV	_	36 got	advmod
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 early	advmod
39	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 got	advmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 morning	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 morning	det
42	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 got	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 go	mark
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 got	advcl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 pick	cc
46	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 go	conj
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 pick	compound:prt
48	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	50 pebbles	det
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 pebbles	amod
50	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 pick	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 got	punct
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 disappointed	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 disappointed	cop
54	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talk	parataxis
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 found	punct
56	for	for	SCONJ	_	58 found	mark
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 found	nsubj
58	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 disappointed	parataxis
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 door	det
60	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 door	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 house	punct
62	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 found	obj
63	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 locked	amod
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 double	punct
65	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 door	acl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 stand	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 stand	cc
68	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 stand	cop
69	at	at	ADP	_	71 stand	case
70	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 stand	det
71	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 found	obl
72	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	74 do	obj
73	to	to	PART	_	74 do	mark
74	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 stand	acl:relcl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	could	folks = folk				of this; secretly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	overhear	past · passive	Little Thumb	folks = folk				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
3	make	past	Little Thumb	account				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Product
4	get out	to-infinitive	Little Thumb not said here	this difficulty				tree rules
5	get up	past	thumb			morning	early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	go	to-infinitive	thumb not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pick up	infinitive	thumb not said here	some little pebbles				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic
8	is	past	thumb				disappointed property	tree rules
9	find	past	thumb	the house door				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic
10	lock	participle		the house door not said here				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
11	is	past			a stand			tree rules
12	do	to-infinitive	thumb not said here	a stand				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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