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title: The poor child bore the blame of whatsoever was done amiss in the ho… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor child bore the blame of whatsoever was done amiss in the house, and, guilty or not, was always in the wrong; he was, notwithstanding, more cunning and had a far greater share of wisdom than all his brothers put together; and, if he spake little, he heard and thought the more. Who acts: poor
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 6

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The poor child bore the blame of whatsoever was done amiss in the house, and, guilty or not, was always in the wrong; he was, notwithstanding, more cunning and had a far greater share of wisdom than all his brothers put together; and, if he spake little, he heard and thought the more.

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**Who acts:** poor child, scarce, brothers · **What happens:** bear, do, be, notwithstand, have, put together · **To what, where:** blame, whatsoever, house, cunning, greater share, little · **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 (poor child, scarce, brothers), 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:pg503:33:6
# text = The poor child bore the blame of whatsoever was done amiss in the house, and, guilty or not, was always in the wrong; he was, notwithstanding, more cunning and had a far greater share of wisdom than all his brothers put together; and, if he spake little, he heard and thought the more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	amiss	amiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
39	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
48	together	together	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	spake	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
55	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	conj	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | the poor child | the blame |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past · passive |  | whatsoever |  | the house |  | amiss *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | always, wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **notwithstand** | past · progressive | scarce | cunning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | scarce *not said here* | a greater share of wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient |
| 6 | **put together** | past | scarce's brothers | a greater share of wisdom *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent share=Goal |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | scarce | little |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **hear** | past | scarce |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **think** *speech: other* | past | scarce *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **share** |  |  | wisdom |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession 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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