The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 61

Little Thumb told her they were poor children who had been lost in the forest, and desired to lodge there for God’s sake.

Who acts: Little Thumb, brothers · What happens: tell, be, lose, desire, lodge · To what, where: woman, poor children, forest · 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, 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thumb	amod
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 children	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 children	cop
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	ccomp
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lost	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 lost	aux:pass
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 children	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 desired	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 desired	cc
18	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lodge	mark
20	lodge	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 desired	xcomp
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 lodge	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 sake	case
23	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sake	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 God	case
25	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lodge	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Little Thumb		woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	past	brothers = brother	poor children				tree rules
3	lose	past · perfect · passive		poor children		the forest		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	desire	participle						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	lodge not said to happen	to-infinitive				there	for God's sake	vn pocket-9.10-1 «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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