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title: Little Thumb came up to the Ogre, pulled off his boots gently and pu… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Thumb came up to the Ogre, pulled off his boots gently and put them on his own legs. Who acts: Little Thumb. 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 124

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Little Thumb came up to the Ogre, pulled off his boots gently and put them on his own legs.

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**Who acts:** Little Thumb · **What happens:** come up, pull off, put · **To what, where:** Ogre, boots, own legs

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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 (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:pg503:33:124
# text = Little Thumb came up to the Ogre, pulled off his boots gently and put them on his own legs.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | Little Thumb |  |  | the Ogre |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ogre=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pull off** | past |  | ogre's boots |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Eventuality |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive |  | boots *= boot* |  | ogre's own legs |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on leg=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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