The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 5

He was very little, and when born no bigger than one’s thumb, which made him be called Little Thumb.

Who acts: scarce, one thumb · What happens: be, bear, not be, make, call · To what, where: scarce · 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 (scarce, one 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 little	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 little	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bigger	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bigger	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 born	advmod
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bigger	advcl
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 bigger	advmod
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 little	conj
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 thumb	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 thumb	nummod
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 one	case
14	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bigger	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thumb	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 called	aux:pass
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 made	xcomp
21	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Thumb	amod
22	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	scarce		little property	tree rules
2	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	not be		scarce not said here		than one thumb	tree rules
4	make	past	one thumb	scarce		tree rules
5	call	infinitive · passive	scarce not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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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