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title: The Ogre, when he awoke, said to his wife: “Go upstairs and dress th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ogre, when he awoke, said to his wife: “Go upstairs and dress those young rascals who came here last night.” Who acts: ogre, young rascals. 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 108

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The Ogre, when he awoke, said to his wife: “Go upstairs and dress those young rascals who came here last night.”

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**Who acts:** ogre, young rascals · **What happens:** awake, say, go, dress, come · **To what, where:** wife, young rascals · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ogre, young rascals), 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:pg503:33:108
# text = The Ogre, when he awoke, said to his wife: “Go upstairs and dress those young rascals who came here last night.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
15	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dress	dress	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rascals	rascal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | ogre |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Ogre |  | ogre's wife |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dress** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that young rascals |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rascal=Patient |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past | that young rascals |  |  | here | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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