The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 51

Then I once more thought of attempting to escape; but when I felt the smart of their arrows on my face and hands, which were all in blisters and observed likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that they might do with me what they pleased.

Who acts: thought, I, face, number, tokens · What happens: attempt, escape, feel, be, observe, increase · To what, where: blisters, tokens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, I, face, number), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 felt	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 felt	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 thought	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 thought	advmod
5	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 I	conj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 attempting	mark
7	attempting	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 thought	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 escape	mark
9	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 attempting	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 felt	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 felt	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 smart	det
16	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 felt	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 arrows	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arrows	nmod:poss
19	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 smart	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 face	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arrows	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hands	cc
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 face	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 blisters	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 blisters	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 blisters	cop
28	all	all	ADV	_	30 blisters	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 blisters	case
30	blisters	blister	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 face	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 observed	cc
32	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 felt	conj
33	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	32 observed	advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 increased	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 number	det
36	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 increased	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 enemies	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 enemies	nmod:poss
39	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 number	nmod
40	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 observed	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 gave	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 gave	nsubj
43	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 felt	conj
44	tokens	token	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 gave	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 let	mark
46	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 gave	advcl
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 let	obj
48	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 let	xcomp
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 do	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 do	nsubj
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 do	aux
52	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 know	ccomp
53	with	with	ADP	_	54 me	case
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 do	obl
55	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	57 pleased	nsubj
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 pleased	nsubj
57	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 do	advcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attempt	gerund	thought not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	thought not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	past	I			then	smart property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	my face and hands and blisters		blisters		all property	tree rules
5	observe	past	I not said here				likewise property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	increase	past	the number of my enemies					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	give	past	I	tokens				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent token=Theme
8	let	to-infinitive	I not said here	tokens = token				tree rules
9	know	infinitive	tokens = token not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	do	might	tokens = token				with me	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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