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title: That which gave them yet more uneasiness was that the youngest was o… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That which gave them yet more uneasiness was that the youngest was of a very puny constitution, and scarce ever spoke a word, which made them take that for stupidity which was a sign of good sense. Who acts: That, more uneasiness, scarce, word. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Lit
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 4

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That which gave them yet more uneasiness was that the youngest was of a very puny constitution, and scarce ever spoke a word, which made them take that for stupidity which was a sign of good sense.

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**Who acts:** That, more uneasiness, scarce, word, man, stupidity · **What happens:** give, be, speak, make, take · **To what, where:** man, word, that, sign · **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 (That, more uneasiness, scarce, word), 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:pg503:33:4
# text = That which gave them yet more uneasiness was that the youngest was of a very puny constitution, and scarce ever spoke a word, which made them take that for stupidity which was a sign of good sense.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	uneasiness	uneasiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	puny	puny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	scarce	scarce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | That |  | man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | more uneasiness |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of a youngest puny constitution | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | scarce | a word |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past | a word | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive | man *not said here* | that |  |  |  | for stupidity | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for stupidity=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **is a** | past | stupidity | a sign |  |  |  | of good sense | tree rules |

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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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