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title: Little Thumb was not very uneasy at it, for he thought he could easi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Thumb was not very uneasy at it, for he thought he could easily find the way again by means of his bread, which he had scattered all along as he came; but he was very much surprised when he could not find so much as one crumb; the birds had come and had eaten it up, every bit. Who acts: Littl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 50

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Little Thumb was not very uneasy at it, for he thought he could easily find the way again by means of his bread, which he had scattered all along as he came; but he was very much surprised when he could not find so much as one crumb; the birds had come and had eaten it up, every bit.

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**Who acts:** Little Thumb, thumb, birds · **What happens:** not be, think, find, mean, scatter, come · **To what, where:** path, way, bread, much · **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 (Little Thumb, thumb, birds), 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:pg503:33:50
# text = Little Thumb was not very uneasy at it, for he thought he could easily find the way again by means of his bread, which he had scattered all along as he came; but he was very much surprised when he could not find so much as one crumb; the birds had come and had eaten it up, every bit.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	along	along	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	much	much	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
42	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	46	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	obj	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	conj	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	up	up	ADP	RP	_	59	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	64	det	_	_
64	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Little Thumb |  |  | path |  | every bit *obl*; uneasy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | thumb |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | could | thumb | the way |  |  | again | easily *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of thumb's bread | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **scatter** | past · perfect · passive |  | thumb's bread |  |  |  | along *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | thumb |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | thumb |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **find** | could | thumb | much |  |  |  | as one crumb | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme as crumb=Attribute |
| 9 | **come** | past · perfect | the birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **eat up** | past · perfect | the birds *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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