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title: The common opinion was: That an ogre lived there, and that he carrie… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The common opinion was: That an ogre lived there, and that he carried thither all the little children he could catch, that he might eat them up at his leisure, without anybody being able to follow him, as having himself only the power to pass through the wood. Who acts: common opinion, ogre, anybody
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 49

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The common opinion was: That an ogre lived there, and that he carried thither all the little children he could catch, that he might eat them up at his leisure, without anybody being able to follow him, as having himself only the power to pass through the wood.

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**Who acts:** common opinion, ogre, anybody · **What happens:** be, live, carry, catch, eat up, follow · **To what, where:** little children, children, leisure, ogre, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (common opinion, ogre, anybody), 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:pg503:10:49
# text = The common opinion was: That an ogre lived there, and that he carried thither all the little children he could catch, that he might eat them up at his leisure, without anybody being able to follow him, as having himself only the power to pass through the wood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	38	nsubj	_	_
37	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	cop	_	_
38	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
45	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	only	only	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	acl	_	_
51	through	through	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the common opinion |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | that ogre |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past | ogre | all little children |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** | could | ogre | all little children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 5 | **eat up** | might | ogre | children *= child* |  | ogre's leisure |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | gerund | anybody |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **follow** | to-infinitive | anybody *not said here* | ogre |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 8 | **have** | gerund | anybody *not said here* | ogre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **pass** | to-infinitive | anybody *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location |

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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 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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