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title: Little Thumb was not so much frightened as his brothers, and told th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Thumb was not so much frightened as his brothers, and told them that they should run away immediately toward home while the Ogre was asleep so soundly, and that they should not be in any pain about him. Who acts: brothers, Ogre. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 122

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Little Thumb was not so much frightened as his brothers, and told them that they should run away immediately toward home while the Ogre was asleep so soundly, and that they should not be in any pain about him.

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**Who acts:** brothers, Ogre · **What happens:** frighten, tell, run away, be, not be · **To what, where:** Little Thumb, brothers, home, pain · **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 (brothers, 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:pg503:33:122
# text = Little Thumb was not so much frightened as his brothers, and told them that they should run away immediately toward home while the Ogre was asleep so soundly, and that they should not be in any pain about him.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
40	about	about	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | Little Thumb |  |  |  | as thumb's brothers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **run away** *not said to happen* | should | brothers *= brother* |  |  | home |  | away, immediately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward home=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** | past | the Ogre |  |  |  |  | asleep, soundly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | should | brothers *= brother* |  |  | any pain |  | about ogre | tree rules |

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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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