The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 48

When their father had given each of them a piece of bread for their breakfast, Little Thumb fancied he might make use of this instead of the pebbles by throwing it in little bits all along the way they should pass; and so he put the bread in his pocket.

Who acts: father, Little Thumb, thumb, folks · What happens: give, fancy, make, throw, pass, put · To what, where: each, breakfast, use, little bits, way, bread

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 (father, Little Thumb, thumb, folks), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 given	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 given	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 each	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 piece	det
10	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 bread	case
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 piece	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 breakfast	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 breakfast	nmod:poss
15	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fancied	punct
17	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Thumb	amod
18	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fancied	nsubj
19	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 breakfast	acl:relcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 make	aux
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fancied	ccomp
23	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 use	nmod
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	29 pebbles	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pebbles	det
29	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 make	obl
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 throwing	mark
31	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 make	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 throwing	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 bits	case
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bits	amod
35	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 throwing	obl
36	all	all	ADV	_	39 way	advmod
37	along	along	ADP	_	39 way	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bits	nmod
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 pass	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 pass	aux
42	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 way	acl:relcl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 put	cc
45	so	so	ADV	_	47 put	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 put	nsubj
47	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 bread	det
49	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 pocket	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 pocket	nmod:poss
52	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect	folks's father	each		for folks's breakfast	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent each=Recipient piece=Theme for breakfast=Asset
2	fancy	past	Little Thumb	folks's breakfast not said here			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent breakfast=Theme clause=Attribute
3	make	might	thumb	use of this		instead the pebbles	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
4	throw	gerund	thumb not said here	use	little bits along the way		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bit=Destination
5	pass	should	folks = folk	the way not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
6	put	past	thumb	the bread	thumb's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bread=Theme in pocket=Destination
7	use			this			nom use «act transitive»: of=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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