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title: The Ogre, fearing his wife would be too long in doing what he had or… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ogre, fearing his wife would be too long in doing what he had ordered, went up himself to help her. Who acts: Ogre. 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 111

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The Ogre, fearing his wife would be too long in doing what he had ordered, went up himself to help her.

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**Who acts:** Ogre · **What happens:** fear, be, do, order, go up, help · **To what, where:** wife, ogre

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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), 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:pg503:33:111
# text = The Ogre, fearing his wife would be too long in doing what he had ordered, went up himself to help her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund | the Ogre *not said here* | ogre's wife |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | would | the Ogre |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | the Ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **order** | past · perfect | ogre |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go up** | past | the Ogre *not said here* | ogre |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | the Ogre *not said here* |  | wife |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |

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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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