--- title: They aver that when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre’s boots he w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They aver that when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre’s boots he went to Court, where he was informed that they were very much in pain about a certain army, which was two hundred leagues off, and the success of a battle. Who acts: folks, Little Thumb, thumb, certain army. A sentence of «The Blue F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/133/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Little Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/) / 133 # The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 133 They aver that when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre’s boots he went to Court, where he was informed that they were very much in pain about a certain army, which was two hundred leagues off, and the success of a battle. **Who acts:** folks, Little Thumb, thumb, certain army · **What happens:** aver, take off, go, inform, be · **To what, where:** success, Court, boots, thumb, pain, hundred leagues · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (folks, Little Thumb, thumb, certain army), 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:pg503:33:133 # text = They aver that when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre’s boots he went to Court, where he was informed that they were very much in pain about a certain army, which was two hundred leagues off, and the success of a battle. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 aver aver VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 5 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Thumb Thumb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 9 off off ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Ogre Ogre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 boots boots NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Court Court PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 informed inform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ _ 30 about about ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 compound _ _ 38 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 40 off off ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **aver** | present | folks *= folk* | the success of a battle | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take off** | past · perfect | Little Thumb | | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | thumb | | Court | the Ogre's boots | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme off boots=Initial\_Location to court=Destination | | 4 | **inform** *speech: other* | past · passive | | thumb | | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | past | folks *= folk* | | | pain | | about a certain army and hundred leagues | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | past | a certain army and hundred leagues | hundred leagues | | | | off *property* | tree rules | 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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/134/) - ↑ back to [Little Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/)