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title: He put bran and sow-thistle into his bag, and stretching himself out… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He put bran and sow-thistle into his bag, and stretching himself out at length, as if he had been dead, he waited for some young rabbit, not yet acquainted with the deceits of the world, to come and rummage his bag for what he had put into it. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 52

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He put bran and sow-thistle into his bag, and stretching himself out at length, as if he had been dead, he waited for some young rabbit, not yet acquainted with the deceits of the world, to come and rummage his bag for what he had put into it.

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** put, stretch out, be, wait, not acquaint, come · **To what, where:** bran, bag, Cat, length

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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 (Cat), 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:pg29021:10:52
# text = He put bran and sow-thistle into his bag, and stretching himself out at length, as if he had been dead, he waited for some young rabbit, not yet acquainted with the deceits of the world, to come and rummage his bag for what he had put into it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bran	bran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
13	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	deceits	deceit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	rummage	rummage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	conj	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	obl	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	acl:relcl	_	_
54	into	into	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Cat | bran and sow thistle |  | Cat's bag |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bran=Goal |
| 2 | **stretch out** | gerund | Cat *not said here* | Cat |  | length |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Cat |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | past | Cat |  |  |  |  | for some young rabbit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **acquaint** *speech: other* | participle | Cat *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | with the deceits of the world | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **rummage** | infinitive | Cat *not said here* | Cat's bag |  |  |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Location for what=Theme |
| 8 | **put** | past · perfect | Cat |  |  | bag |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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