The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 6

The poor child bore the blame of whatsoever was done amiss in the house, and, guilty or not, was always in the wrong; he was, notwithstanding, more cunning and had a far greater share of wisdom than all his brothers put together; and, if he spake little, he heard and thought the more.

Who acts: poor child, scarce, brothers · What happens: bear, do, be, notwithstand, have, put together · To what, where: blame, whatsoever, house, cunning, greater share, little · 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 (poor child, scarce, brothers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bore	nsubj
4	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blame	det
6	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bore	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 whatsoever	case
8	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 done	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux:pass
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 blame	acl:relcl
11	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 done	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guilty	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 guilty	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guilty	punct
18	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bore	parataxis
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 not	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 guilty	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wrong	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wrong	cop
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 wrong	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 wrong	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wrong	det
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bore	parataxis
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 notwithstanding	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 notwithstanding	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 notwithstanding	aux
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 notwithstanding	punct
31	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bore	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cunning	punct
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 cunning	advmod
34	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 notwithstanding	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 notwithstanding	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 share	det
38	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 greater	advmod
39	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 share	amod
40	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 wisdom	case
42	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 share	nmod
43	than	than	SCONJ	_	47 put	mark
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 brothers	det:predet
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 brothers	nmod:poss
46	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 put	nsubj
47	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 share	acl:relcl
48	together	together	ADV	_	47 put	advmod
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 heard	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 heard	cc
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 and	punct
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	54 spake	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 spake	nsubj
54	spake	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 heard	advcl
55	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 spake	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 spake	punct
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 heard	nsubj
58	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bore	parataxis
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 thought	cc
60	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 heard	conj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 more	det
62	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	60 thought	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past	the poor child	the blame			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Patient
2	do	past · passive		whatsoever	the house	amiss property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	is	past				always, wrong property	tree rules
4	notwithstand	past · progressive	scarce	cunning			tree rules
5	have	past	scarce not said here	a greater share of wisdom			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient
6	put together	past	scarce's brothers	a greater share of wisdom not said here		together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent share=Goal
7	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	scarce	little			tree rules
8	hear	past	scarce				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
9	think speech: other	past	scarce not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	share			wisdom			nom share «possession transitive»: of=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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