The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 95

Little Thumb, who had observed that the Ogre’s daughters had crowns of gold upon their heads, and was afraid lest the Ogre should repent his not killing them, got up about midnight, and, taking his brothers’ bonnets and his own, went very softly and put them upon the heads of the seven little ogresses, after having taken off their crowns of gold, which he put upon his own head and his brothers’, that the Ogre might take them for his daughters, and his daughters for the little boys whom he wanted to kill.

Who acts: Little Thumb, daughters, Ogre, taken crowns, little boys, ogresses · What happens: observe, have, be, repent, not kill, get up · To what, where: crowns, thumb, bonnets, heads, taken crowns, own head

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 (Little Thumb, daughters, Ogre, taken crowns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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