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title: Now at this time of day, Not one of all the sex we see Doth sleep wi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Now at this time of day, Not one of all the sex we see Doth sleep with such profound tranquillity: But yet this Fable seems to let us know That very often Hymen's blisses sweet, Altho' some tedious obstacles they meet, Are not less happy for approaching slow. ' Who acts: we, one, Fable, us. A senten
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 36

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Now at this time of day, Not one of all the sex we see Doth sleep with such profound tranquillity: But yet this Fable seems to let us know That very often Hymen's blisses sweet, Altho' some tedious obstacles they meet, Are not less happy for approaching slow. '

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**Who acts:** we, one, Fable, us, obstacles, tedious obstacles · **What happens:** see, do, seem, let, know, meet · **To what, where:** sex, sleep, us, tedious obstacles

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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 (we, one, Fable, us), 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:pg29021:10:36
# text = Now at this time of day, Not one of all the sex we see Doth sleep with such profound tranquillity: But yet this Fable seems to let us know That very often Hymen's blisses sweet, Altho' some tedious obstacles they meet, Are not less happy for approaching slow. '
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	Doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tranquillity	tranquillity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	Fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	often	often	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	Hymen	Hymen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	blisses	bliss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
40	Altho	Altho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
43	tedious	tedious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	51	advmod	_	_
51	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
52	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
53	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
54	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
56	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | we | all sex *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sex=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | present | one of all sex | sleep |  |  | time | with such profound tranquillity | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Eventuality |
| 3 | **seem** | present | this Fable |  |  |  | yet |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive | this Fable *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **meet** | present | obstacles *= obstacle* | Altho's tedious obstacles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obstacle=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | Altho's tedious obstacles |  |  |  |  | happy, less *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **approach** | gerund | Altho's tedious obstacles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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