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title: The mole had come to fetch Thumbelina to live with him deep down und… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The mole had come to fetch Thumbelina to live with him deep down under the ground, never to come out into the warm sun again, for that was what he didn’t like. Who acts: mole, that. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 210

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The mole had come to fetch Thumbelina to live with him deep down under the ground, never to come out into the warm sun again, for that was what he didn’t like.

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**Who acts:** mole, that · **What happens:** come, fetch, live, not come out, be, not like · **To what, where:** Thumbelina, warm sun

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mole, that), 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:pg640:47:210
# text = The mole had come to fetch Thumbelina to live with him deep down under the ground, never to come out into the warm sun again, for that was what he didn’t like.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | the mole |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the mole *not said here* | Thumbelina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | the mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with mole; down *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
| 4 | **not** **come out** | to-infinitive | the mole *not said here* |  |  | the warm sun | again | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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