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title: He went to find out little Day, and saw him with a little foil in hi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He went to find out little Day, and saw him with a little foil in his hand, with which he was fencing with a great monkey; the child being then only three years of age. Who acts: man, child. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], with its
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 16

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He went to find out little Day, and saw him with a little foil in his hand, with which he was fencing with a great monkey; the child being then only three years of age.

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**Who acts:** man, child · **What happens:** go, find out, see, fence, be · **To what, where:** little Day, man, three years

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, child), 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:pg29021:10:16
# text = He went to find out little Day, and saw him with a little foil in his hand, with which he was fencing with a great monkey; the child being then only three years of age.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	foil	foil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	fencing	fence	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find out** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | little Day |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | past |  | man |  |  |  | with a little foil in man's hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fence** | past · progressive | man |  |  |  |  | with a great monkey | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with which=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | gerund | the child | three years |  |  | of age; then |  | 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:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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