--- title: They aver, that, when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre's boots, h… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: They aver, that, when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre's boots, he went to Court, where he was informed that they were very anxious about a certain army, which was two hundred leagues off, and the success of a battle. Who acts: folks, Little Thumb, Thumb, certain army. A sentence of «The Fairy Ta --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/158/) [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/) / 158 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 158 They aver, that, when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre's boots, he went to Court, where he was informed that they were very anxious about a certain army, which was two hundred leagues off, and the success of a battle. **Who acts:** folks, Little Thumb, Thumb, certain army · **What happens:** aver, take off, go, inform, be · **To what, where:** that, boots, Court, Thumb · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (folks, Little Thumb, Thumb, certain army), 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:pg29021:14:158 # text = They aver, that, when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre's boots, he went to Court, where he was informed that they were very anxious about a certain army, which was two hundred leagues off, and the success of a battle. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 aver aver VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 7 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Thumb Thumb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 11 off off ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Ogre Ogre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Court Court PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 informed inform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 ccomp _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 compound _ _ 39 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 off off ADV RB _ 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **aver** | present | folks *= folk* | that | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take off** | past · perfect | Little Thumb | the Ogre's boots | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | Thumb | | | Court | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **inform** *speech: other* | past · passive | | Thumb | | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | past | folks *= folk* | | | | | about a certain army; anxious *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | a certain army | | | | | hundred leagues *obl:unmarked*; off *property* | tree rules | 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 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/157/) - next →: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/159/) - ↑ back to [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/)