The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 49
Their father and mother brought them into the thickest and most obscure part of the forest, when, stealing away into a by-path, they there left them.
Who acts: father, folks · What happens: bring, steal away, leave · To what, where: folks, thickest part, a, pebbles
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, 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mother | cc |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 part | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 part | det |
| 9 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 part | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 obscure | cc |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 obscure | advmod |
| 12 | obscure | obscure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thickest | conj |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stealing | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 stealing | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stealing | punct |
| 20 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 brought | advcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 stealing | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 a | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stealing | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 path | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 by | punct |
| 26 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stealing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 left | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 left | nsubj |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 left | advmod |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 left | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | folks's father and mother | folks = folk | the thickest part of the forest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into part=Destination | |||
| 2 | steal away | gerund | folks's father and mother not said here | a | by path; away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by path=Location | |||
| 3 | leave | past | folks = folk | pebbles = pebble | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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