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title: While Cinderilla was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock s… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: While Cinderilla was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock strike eleven and three quarters, whereupon she immediately made a curtesy to the company, and hasted away as fast as she could. Who acts: Cinderilla, amusing, collation. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 82

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While Cinderilla was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock strike eleven and three quarters, whereupon she immediately made a curtesy to the company, and hasted away as fast as she could.

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**Who acts:** Cinderilla, amusing, collation · **What happens:** be, hear, make, haste away · **To what, where:** sisters, clock strike, curtesy

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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 (Cinderilla, amusing, collation), 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:pg29021:11:82
# text = While Cinderilla was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock strike eleven and three quarters, whereupon she immediately made a curtesy to the company, and hasted away as fast as she could.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	curtesy	curtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hasted	haste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is** | past | Cinderilla |  | collation's sisters |  |  | amusing, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | amusing | the clock strike and three quarters |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer strike=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | past | collation | a curtesy |  |  |  | to the company; immediately, whereupon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtesy=Product |
| 4 | **haste away** | past | amusing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, fast *property* | 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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