The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 50

Little Thumb was not very uneasy at it, for he thought he could easily find the way again by means of his bread, which he had scattered all along as he came; but he was very much surprised when he could not find so much as one crumb; the birds had come and had eaten it up, every bit.

Who acts: Little Thumb, thumb, birds · What happens: not be, think, find, mean, scatter, come · To what, where: path, way, bread, much · 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 (Little Thumb, thumb, birds), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thumb	amod
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 uneasy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 uneasy	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 uneasy	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 uneasy	advmod
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 uneasy	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 thought	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 uneasy	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	16 find	advmod
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 find	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 means	case
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 find	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bread	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bread	nmod:poss
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 means	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scattered	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 scattered	nsubj:pass
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 scattered	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 scattered	aux
29	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bread	acl:relcl
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 along	advmod
31	along	along	ADV	_	29 scattered	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 along	advcl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 surprised	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 surprised	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 surprised	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 surprised	cop
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADV	_	41 surprised	advmod
41	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 uneasy	conj
42	when	when	SCONJ	_	46 find	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 find	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 find	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 find	advmod
46	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 surprised	advcl
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 much	advmod
48	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 find	obj
49	as	as	ADP	_	51 crumb	case
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 crumb	nummod
51	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 much	nmod
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 come	punct
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 birds	det
54	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 come	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 come	aux
56	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 uneasy	parataxis
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 eaten	cc
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 eaten	aux
59	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 come	conj
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 eaten	obj
61	up	up	ADP	_	59 eaten	compound:prt
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 bit	punct
63	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	64 bit	det
64	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uneasy	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 uneasy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Little Thumb		path		every bit obl; uneasy property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	thumb					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	find	could	thumb	the way		again	easily property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	mean	present					of thumb's bread	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	scatter	past · perfect · passive		thumb's bread			along property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
6	come	past	thumb					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	thumb				surprised property	tree rules
8	not find	could	thumb	much			as one crumb	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme as crumb=Attribute
9	come	past · perfect	the birds					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	eat up	past · perfect	the birds not said here	way				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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