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title: There was immediately a profound silence, they left off dancing, and… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: There was immediately a profound silence, they left off dancing, and the violins ceased to play, so attentive was every one to contemplate the singular beauty of this unknown new comer. Who acts: profound silence, pantoufles, violins. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Pe
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 73

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There was immediately a profound silence, they left off dancing, and the violins ceased to play, so attentive was every one to contemplate the singular beauty of this unknown new comer.

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**Who acts:** profound silence, pantoufles, violins · **What happens:** be, leave off, cease, play, contemplate · **To what, where:** dancing, attentive one, singular beauty

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (profound silence, pantoufles, violins), 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:pg29021:11:73
# text = There was immediately a profound silence, they left off dancing, and the violins ceased to play, so attentive was every one to contemplate the singular beauty of this unknown new comer.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	violins	violin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	attentive	attentive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	contemplate	contemplate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
32	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	comer	comer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a profound silence |  |  | there |  | immediately *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave off** | past | pantoufles *= pantoufle* | dancing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Theme |
| 3 | **cease** | past | the violins |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | the violins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | every attentive one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **contemplate** | to-infinitive | the violins *not said here* | the singular beauty of unknown new comer |  |  |  |  | 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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