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title: He took him up in his arms, and carried him to his wife, that she mi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He took him up in his arms, and carried him to his wife, that she might conceal him in her chamber along with his sister, and in the room of little Day cooked up a young kid very tender, which the Ogress found to be wonderfully good. Who acts: man, wife, Ogress, tender. A sentence of «The Fairy Tale
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 17

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He took him up in his arms, and carried him to his wife, that she might conceal him in her chamber along with his sister, and in the room of little Day cooked up a young kid very tender, which the Ogress found to be wonderfully good.

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**Who acts:** man, wife, Ogress, tender · **What happens:** take up, carry, conceal, cook up, find, be · **To what, where:** child, arms, man, wife, chamber, young kid

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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, wife, Ogress, tender), 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:pg29021:10:17
# text = He took him up in his arms, and carried him to his wife, that she might conceal him in her chamber along with his sister, and in the room of little Day cooked up a young kid very tender, which the Ogress found to be wonderfully good.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	carried	carry	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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	very	very	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
50	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **take up** | past | man | child |  | man's arms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location |
| 2 | **carry** | past |  | man | man's wife |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to wife=Destination |
| 3 | **conceal** | might | wife | man |  | wife's chamber |  | along man's sister | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in chamber=Location |
| 4 | **cook up** | participle | man *not said here* | a young kid |  | the room of little Day |  | tender *obl* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Product |
| 5 | **find** | past | the Ogress | tender |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | tender *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good, wonderfully *property* | 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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