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title: At this noise the King put his head out of his coach-window, and fin… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: At this noise the King put his head out of his coach-window, and finding it was the Cat who had so often brought him such good game, he commanded his guards to run immediately to the assistance of his lordship the Marquis of Carabas. Who acts: King, head, Cat. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charl
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 67

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At this noise the King put his head out of his coach-window, and finding it was the Cat who had so often brought him such good game, he commanded his guards to run immediately to the assistance of his lordship the Marquis of Carabas.

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**Who acts:** King, head, Cat · **What happens:** put, find, be, bring, command, run · **To what, where:** head, noise, Cat, such good game, King, guards · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (King, head, 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:pg29021:10:67
# text = At this noise the King put his head out of his coach-window, and finding it was the Cat who had so often brought him such good game, he commanded his guards to run immediately to the assistance of his lordship the Marquis of Carabas.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
38	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	lordship	lordship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the King | King's head |  | this noise |  | out King's coach window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at noise=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | head | the Cat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | past | the Cat | such good game | King |  |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination game=Theme |
| 5 | **command** | past | King | King's guards |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent guard=Eventuality |
| 6 | **run** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the assistance of King's lordship *result*; immediately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to assistance=Result |
| 7 | **assist** |  |  | King's lordship |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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