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title: As they began to be a little warm they heard three or four great rap… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they began to be a little warm they heard three or four great raps at the door; this was the Ogre, who had come home. Who acts: wolves, this, Ogre. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 68

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As they began to be a little warm they heard three or four great raps at the door; this was the Ogre, who had come home.

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**Who acts:** wolves, this, Ogre · **What happens:** begin, be, hear, come · **To what, where:** little warm, three great raps, door, Ogre

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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 (wolves, this, Ogre), 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:pg503:33:68
# text = As they began to be a little warm they heard three or four great raps at the door; this was the Ogre, who had come home.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	warm	warm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	raps	rap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl	_	_
28	home	home	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* | a little warm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | wolves *= wolf* | three great raps |  | the door |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rap=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this | the Ogre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | the Ogre |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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