--- title: Another time he went and hid himself among some standing corn, holdi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Another time he went and hid himself among some standing corn, holding still his bag open; and when a brace of partridges ran into it, he drew the strings, and so caught them both. Who acts: master, brace. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/) / 58 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 58 Another time he went and hid himself among some standing corn, holding still his bag open; and when a brace of partridges ran into it, he drew the strings, and so caught them both. **Who acts:** master, brace · **What happens:** go, hide, stand, hold, run, draw · **To what, where:** master, standing corn, bag, strings 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 (master, brace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:10:58 # text = Another time he went and hid himself among some standing corn, holding still his bag open; and when a brace of partridges ran into it, he drew the strings, and so caught them both. 1 Another another DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 among among ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 10 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 14 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 brace brace NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 partridges partridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | master | | | | time | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hide** | past | master *not said here* | master | | some standing corn | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient among corn=Location | | 3 | **stand** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hold** | gerund | master *not said here* | master's bag | | | | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | | 5 | **run** | past | a brace of partridges | | | bag | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | | 6 | **draw** | past | master | the strings | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme | | 7 | **catch** | past | master *not said here* | strings *= string* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary both=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/59/) - ↑ back to [Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/)