The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 56
Little Thumb climbed up to the top of a tree, to see if he could discover anything; and having turned his head about on every side, he saw at last a glimmering light, like that of a candle, but a long way from the forest.
Who acts: Little Thumb, thumb · What happens: climb up, see, discover, have, turn, glimmer · To what, where: top, anything, head, side, glimmering light, last
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), 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 | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 top | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 climbed | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 discover | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 discover | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 discover | aux |
| 17 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | ccomp |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 discover | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 turned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 turned | cc |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 turned | nsubj |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | obj |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 turned | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 side | det |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saw | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saw | nsubj |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | parataxis |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 last | case |
| 33 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 saw | obl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 light | det |
| 35 | glimmering | glimmer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 light | amod |
| 36 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saw | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 that | punct |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 that | case |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 saw | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 candle | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 candle | det |
| 42 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 that | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 way | punct |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 way | cc |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 way | det |
| 46 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 way | amod |
| 47 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | parataxis |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 forest | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 forest | det |
| 50 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 way | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | Little Thumb | the top of a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Little Thumb not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | discover a condition, not said to happen | could | thumb | anything | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | turn | past | thumb's head | every side | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 6 | see | past | thumb | a glimmering light | last | tree rules | |||
| 7 | glimmer | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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