The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 57

He came down, and, when upon the ground, he could see it no more, which grieved him sadly.

Who acts: thumb · What happens: come down, see, grieve · To what, where: ground, thumb

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 (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	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grieved	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grieved	cc
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 see	advmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ground	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 grieved	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 see	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grieved	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 grieved	nsubj
20	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grieved	obj
22	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	20 grieved	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come down	past	thumb		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	could	thumb	ground	upon the ground	tree rules
3	grieve	past		thumb	sadly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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