--- title: Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to go home again… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to go home again; for as he came he had taken care to drop all along the way the little white pebbles he had in his pockets. Who acts: Little Thumb, children, Thumb. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Eart --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/44/) [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/) / 44 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 44 Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to go home again; for as he came he had taken care to drop all along the way the little white pebbles he had in his pockets. **Who acts:** Little Thumb, children, Thumb · **What happens:** let, cry on, know, go, come, take · **To what, where:** children, care, way, little white pebbles, pockets · **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 (Little Thumb, children, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:14:44 # text = Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to go home again; for as he came he had taken care to drop all along the way the little white pebbles he had in his pockets. 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Thumb Thumb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 on on ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 parataxis _ _ 24 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 27 all all ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 along along ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 appos _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 pockets pocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | infinitive | Little Thumb | children *= child* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cry on** *speech: express* | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **know** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | again | home, well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | Thumb | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **take** | past · perfect | Thumb | care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 7 | **drop** | to-infinitive | Thumb *not said here* | | | the way | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along way=Trajectory | | 8 | **have** | past | Thumb | the little white pebbles *not said here* | | Thumb's pockets | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/45/) - ↑ back to [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/)