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title: “Tom Thumb” is “Le petit Poucet” of the French, “Daumling” of the Ge… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Tom Thumb” is “Le petit Poucet” of the French, “Daumling” of the Germans, and similar diminutive heroes elsewhere (_cf. Who acts: Tom Thumb. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. Tom Thumb., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXV. Tom Thumb., sentence 4

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“Tom Thumb” is “Le petit Poucet” of the French, “Daumling” of the Germans, and similar diminutive heroes elsewhere (\_cf.

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**Who acts:** Tom Thumb · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Le petit Poucet

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. Tom Thumb.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom Thumb), 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:pg7439:75:4
# text = “Tom Thumb” is “Le petit Poucet” of the French, “Daumling” of the Germans, and similar diminutive heroes elsewhere (_cf.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	petit	petit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Poucet	Poucet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Daumling	Daumling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Germans	German	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	diminutive	diminutive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
26	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Tom Thumb | Le petit Poucet and Daumling of the Germans and similar diminutive heroes and cf |  |  |  | of the French | tree rules |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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