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title: The Ogre had seven daughters, all little children, and these young o… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ogre had seven daughters, all little children, and these young ogresses had all of them very fine complexions, because they used to eat fresh meat like their father; but they had little gray eyes, quite round, hooked noses, and very long sharp teeth, standing at a good distance from each other. 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 91

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The Ogre had seven daughters, all little children, and these young ogresses had all of them very fine complexions, because they used to eat fresh meat like their father; but they had little gray eyes, quite round, hooked noses, and very long sharp teeth, standing at a good distance from each other.

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**Who acts:** Ogre, young ogresses, ogresses · **What happens:** have, use, eat, hook, stand · **To what, where:** seven daughters, all, fresh meat, little gray eyes

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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 (Ogre, young ogresses, ogresses), 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:pg503:33:91
# text = The Ogre had seven daughters, all little children, and these young ogresses had all of them very fine complexions, because they used to eat fresh meat like their father; but they had little gray eyes, quite round, hooked noses, and very long sharp teeth, standing at a good distance from each other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ogresses	ogress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	complexions	complexion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	hooked	hook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	very	very	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
58	from	from	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	57	nmod	_	_
60	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Ogre | seven daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | this young ogresses | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | past | ogresses *= ogress* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | ogresses *= ogress* *not said here* | fresh meat |  |  |  | like ogresses's father | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | ogresses *= ogress* | little gray eyes |  |  |  | long sharp teeth *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 6 | **hook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **stand** | gerund | ogresses *= ogress* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a good distance from each | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location |

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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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