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title: Upon this he forthwith conducted her to his chamber; where leaving h… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this he forthwith conducted her to his chamber; where leaving her to embrace her children, and cry along with them, he went and dressed a hind, which the Queen had for her supper, and devoured it with the same appetite, as if it had been the young Queen. Who acts: child, Queen, supper. A senten
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 26

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Upon this he forthwith conducted her to his chamber; where leaving her to embrace her children, and cry along with them, he went and dressed a hind, which the Queen had for her supper, and devoured it with the same appetite, as if it had been the young Queen.

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**Who acts:** child, Queen, supper · **What happens:** conduct, leave, embrace, cry, go, dress · **To what, where:** Queen, this, children, supper

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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 (child, Queen, supper), 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:pg29021:10:26
# text = Upon this he forthwith conducted her to his chamber; where leaving her to embrace her children, and cry along with them, he went and dressed a hind, which the Queen had for her supper, and devoured it with the same appetite, as if it had been the young Queen.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	along	along	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	devoured	devour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
52	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	55	cop	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past | child | Queen |  | this |  | to child's chamber; forthwith *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon this=Destination |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | child *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **embrace** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | Queen's children |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with orders *= order*; along *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with they=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **dress** | past | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hind *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **have** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | for Queen's supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 8 | **devour** | past | child *not said here* | supper |  |  |  | with the same appetite | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 9 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | supper |  |  |  |  | as the young Queen | 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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