--- title: Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to get home agai… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to get home again, for, as he came, he took care to drop all along the way the little white pebbles he had in his pockets. Who acts: Little Thumb, children, thumb. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/21/) [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/) / 21 # The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 21 Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to get home again, for, as he came, he took care to drop all along the way the little white pebbles he had in his pockets. **Who acts:** Little Thumb, children, thumb · **What happens:** let, cry on, know, get, come, care · **To what, where:** children, way, little white pebbles, pockets · **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 (Little Thumb, children, thumb), 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:pg503:33:21 # text = Little Thumb let them cry on, knowing very well how to get home again, for, as he came, he took care to drop all along the way the little white pebbles he had in his pockets. 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Thumb Thumb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 on on ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 all all ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 along along ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 appos _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 pockets pocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | infinitive | Little Thumb | children *= child* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cry on** *speech: express* | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **know** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | | | | | again | home, well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **come** | past | thumb | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **care** | past | thumb | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **drop** | to-infinitive | thumb *not said here* | | | the way | | all *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along way=Trajectory | | 8 | **have** | past | thumb | the little white pebbles *not said here* | | thumb's pockets | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Patient | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/22/) - ↑ back to [Little Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/)