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title: Little Thumb, seeing a hollow rock near the place where they were, m… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Thumb, seeing a hollow rock near the place where they were, made his brothers hide themselves in it, and crowded into it himself, minding always what would become of the Ogre. Who acts: children, Little Thumb. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependen
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 119

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Little Thumb, seeing a hollow rock near the place where they were, made his brothers hide themselves in it, and crowded into it himself, minding always what would become of the Ogre.

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**Who acts:** children, Little Thumb · **What happens:** see, be, hide, crowd, mind, become · **To what, where:** hollow rock, place, children, 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 (children, Little Thumb), 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:pg503:33:119
# text = Little Thumb, seeing a hollow rock near the place where they were, made his brothers hide themselves in it, and crowded into it himself, minding always what would become of the Ogre.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	minding	mind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
30	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | a hollow rock |  | the place |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | present | Little Thumb | children *= child* |  | place |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in it=Location |
| 4 | **crowd** | participle | Little Thumb *not said here* | thumb |  | place |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
| 5 | **mind** | gerund | Little Thumb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **become** | would | Little Thumb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the Ogre | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result |

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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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