--- title: [5] Little Thumb, seeing a hollow rock near the place where they wer… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: [5] Little Thumb, seeing a hollow rock near the place where they were, made his brothers hide themselves in it, and crowded into it himself, minding always what would become of the Ogre. Who acts: 5 Little Thumb, brothers. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/143/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/) / 143 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 143 \[5\] Little Thumb, seeing a hollow rock near the place where they were, made his brothers hide themselves in it, and crowded into it himself, minding always what would become of the Ogre. **Who acts:** 5 Little Thumb, brothers · **What happens:** see, make, hide, crowd, mind, become · **To what, where:** hollow rock, place, children, Thumb This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (5 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:14:143 # text = [5] Little Thumb, seeing a hollow rock near the place where they were, made his brothers hide themselves in it, and crowded into it himself, minding always what would become of the Ogre. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Thumb Thumb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 near near ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 crowded crowd VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 minding mind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 33 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 32 advmod _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Ogre Ogre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | 5 Little Thumb *not said here* | a hollow rock | | the place | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus | | 2 | **make** | past | 5 Little Thumb | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hide** | present | Thumb's brothers | children *= child* | | place | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in it=Location | | 4 | **crowd** | participle | 5 Little Thumb *not said here* | Thumb | | place | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | | 5 | **mind** | gerund | 5 Little Thumb *not said here* | | | | | always *property* | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **become** | would | | | | | | of the Ogre | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/142/) - next →: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/144/) - ↑ back to [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/)