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title: Little Thumb climbed up to the top of a tree, to see if he could dis… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Thumb climbed up to the top of a tree, to see if he could discover any thing; and having turned his head about on every side, he saw at last a glimmering light, like that of a candle, but a long way from the forest. Who acts: Little Thumb, Thumb. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perr
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 78

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Little Thumb climbed up to the top of a tree, to see if he could discover any thing; and having turned his head about on every side, he saw at last a glimmering light, like that of a candle, but a long way from the forest.

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**Who acts:** Little Thumb, Thumb · **What happens:** climb up, see, discover, have, turn, glimmer · **To what, where:** top, thing, head, side, glimmering light, last

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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, Thumb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29021:14:78
# text = Little Thumb climbed up to the top of a tree, to see if he could discover any thing; and having turned his head about on every side, he saw at last a glimmering light, like that of a candle, but a long way from the forest.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	nsubj	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	glimmering	glimmer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | past | Little Thumb |  |  | the top of a tree |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Little Thumb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **discover** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | Thumb | any thing |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | past |  | Thumb's head |  | every side |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | past | Thumb | a glimmering light |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **glimmer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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