--- title: “Your husband,” said Little Thumb, “is in very great danger, being t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Your husband,” said Little Thumb, “is in very great danger, being taken by a gang of thieves, who have sworn to kill him if he does not give them all his gold and silver. Who acts: husband, gang, thieves. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, gang, thieves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:33:127 # text = “Your husband,” said Little Thumb, “is in very great danger, being taken by a gang of thieves, who have sworn to kill him if he does not give them all his gold and silver. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Thumb Thumb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 gang gang NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 thieves thief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 sworn swear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Your husband | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | great danger | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | a gang of thieves | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **swear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thieves | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | thieves *not said here* | thumb | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **not** **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | husband | thumb's gold and silver | thieves *= thief* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gold=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/128/) - ↑ back to [Little Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/)