The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 98

He then went up, groping all the way, into his daughters’ chamber, and, coming to the bed where the little boys lay, and who were every soul of them fast asleep, except Little Thumb, who was terribly afraid when he found the Ogre fumbling about his head, as he had done about his brothers’, the Ogre, feeling the golden crowns, said:

Who acts: ogre, little boys, Little Thumb · What happens: go up, grope, come, lay, be, find · To what, where: way, chamber, bed, soul, Ogre, golden crowns · 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 (ogre, little boys, Little 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	3 went	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 said	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 groping	punct
6	groping	grope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 groping	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 chamber	punct
11	into	into	ADP	_	15 chamber	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughters	nmod:poss
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chamber	nmod:poss
14	’	's	PART	_	13 daughters	case
15	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 groping	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 coming	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 coming	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 coming	punct
19	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 bed	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bed	det
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 coming	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 lay	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boys	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boys	amod
26	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bed	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 soul	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 soul	cc
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 soul	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 soul	cop
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 soul	det
33	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 soul	nmod
36	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 asleep	advmod
37	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 soul	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Thumb	punct
39	except	except	ADP	_	41 Thumb	case
40	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Thumb	amod
41	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 afraid	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 afraid	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 afraid	cop
45	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	46 afraid	advmod
46	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Thumb	advcl
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 found	advmod
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 found	nsubj
49	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 afraid	advcl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Ogre	det
51	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 found	obj
52	fumbling	fumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 found	advcl
53	about	about	ADP	_	55 head	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 head	nmod:poss
55	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fumbling	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 done	punct
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	60 done	mark
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 done	nsubj
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 done	aux
60	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 afraid	ccomp
61	about	about	ADP	_	63 brothers	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 brothers	nmod:poss
63	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 done	obl
64	’	'	PUNCT	_	60 done	punct
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 Ogre	punct
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 Ogre	det
67	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Thumb	conj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 feeling	punct
69	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	conj
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 crowns	det
71	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 crowns	amod
72	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 feeling	obj
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 said	punct
74	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
75	:	:	PUNCT	_	74 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	ogre			then	except Little Thumb and the Ogre	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	grope	gerund	ogre not said here	all way	ogre's daughters's chamber			vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Experiencer
3	come	gerund	ogre not said here		the bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	lay	present	the little boys					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		every soul			of boys = boy	tree rules
6	is	past	Little Thumb and the Ogre				afraid, terribly property	tree rules
7	find	past	ogre	the Ogre				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Topic
8	fumble	gerund	ogre not said here				about ogre's head	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about head=Location
9	do	past · perfect	ogre				about ogre's brothers	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	feel	gerund	ogre not said here	the golden crowns				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
11	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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