The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 65
“Ah! dear madam,” answered Little Thumb (who trembled every joint of him, as well as his brothers), “what shall we do?
Who acts: dear madam, Little Thumb, we · What happens: answer, tremble, do · To what, where: joint · 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 (dear madam, Little Thumb, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 madam | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 madam | amod |
| 5 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 madam | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 madam | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Thumb | amod |
| 10 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 trembled | nsubj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 trembled | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 trembled | nsubj |
| 13 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 joint | det |
| 15 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembled | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 joint | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brothers | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 brothers | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 brothers | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 trembled | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 brothers | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 do | obj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | aux |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trembled | conj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | dear madam | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tremble | past | Little Thumb | every joint of ogre | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joint=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | shall | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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