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title: There are many people who do not agree in this circumstance, and pre… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There are many people who do not agree in this circumstance, and pretend that Little Thumb never robbed the Ogre at all, and that he only thought he might very justly, and with a safe conscience, take off his boots of seven leagues, because he made no other use of them but to run after little childr
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 131

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There are many people who do not agree in this circumstance, and pretend that Little Thumb never robbed the Ogre at all, and that he only thought he might very justly, and with a safe conscience, take off his boots of seven leagues, because he made no other use of them but to run after little children.

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**Who acts:** many people, Little Thumb, thumb · **What happens:** be, not agree, pretend, not rob, think, take off · **To what, where:** circumstance, Ogre, all, boots, other use, people · **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 (many people, Little Thumb, 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:pg503:33:131
# text = There are many people who do not agree in this circumstance, and pretend that Little Thumb never robbed the Ogre at all, and that he only thought he might very justly, and with a safe conscience, take off his boots of seven leagues, because he made no other use of them but to run after little children.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pretend	pretend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	robbed	rob	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
52	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	54	det	_	_
53	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	_
57	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
60	after	after	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | many people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **agree** *speech: agree* | present · do-support | many people |  |  | this circumstance |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pretend** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **rob** | past | Little Thumb | the Ogre |  | all |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Source |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | thumb |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **take off** | infinitive |  | thumb's boots of seven leagues |  |  |  | with a safe conscience | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | past | thumb | no other use of people |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 8 | **run** | to-infinitive | thumb *not said here* |  |  |  | after little children |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **use** |  |  | people |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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