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title: So soon as Little Thumb heard the Ogre snore, he waked his brothers,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So soon as Little Thumb heard the Ogre snore, he waked his brothers, and bade them all put on their clothes presently and follow him. Who acts: Little Thumb, thumb, brothers. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 105

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So soon as Little Thumb heard the Ogre snore, he waked his brothers, and bade them all put on their clothes presently and follow him.

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**Who acts:** Little Thumb, thumb, brothers · **What happens:** hear, wake, put, follow · **To what, where:** Ogre snore, brothers, clothes, thumb

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. 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, brothers), 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:pg503:33:105
# text = So soon as Little Thumb heard the Ogre snore, he waked his brothers, and bade them all put on their clothes presently and follow him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	snore	snore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	waked	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obl	_	_
24	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Little Thumb | the Ogre snore |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snore=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wake** | past | thumb | thumb's brothers |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | present | brothers *= brother* |  |  | brothers's clothes |  | bade *vocative*; all, presently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
| 4 | **follow** | infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | thumb |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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