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title: They espied the Ogre, who went at one step from mountain to mountain… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They espied the Ogre, who went at one step from mountain to mountain, and over rivers as easily as the narrowest kennels. Who acts: children, 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 118

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They espied the Ogre, who went at one step from mountain to mountain, and over rivers as easily as the narrowest kennels.

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**Who acts:** children, Ogre · **What happens:** espy, go · **To what, where:** Ogre, mountain

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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 (children, 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:pg503:33:118
# text = They espied the Ogre, who went at one step from mountain to mountain, and over rivers as easily as the narrowest kennels.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	espied	espy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	narrowest	narrow	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	kennels	kennel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **espy** | past | children *= child* | the Ogre |  |  |  | rivers *obl* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ogre=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Ogre |  |  | mountain |  | at one step; to mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial\_Location to mountain=Destination |

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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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