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title: The astonishment her two sisters were in was excessively great, but… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The astonishment her two sisters were in was excessively great, but still abundantly greater, when Cinderilla pulled out of her pocket the other slipper, and put it on her foot. Who acts: astonishment, Cinderilla. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took U
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 11

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The astonishment her two sisters were in was excessively great, but still abundantly greater, when Cinderilla pulled out of her pocket the other slipper, and put it on her foot.

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**Who acts:** astonishment, Cinderilla · **What happens:** be, pull out, put · **To what, where:** pocket, astonishment, foot

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishment, Cinderilla), 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:pg29021:12:11
# text = The astonishment her two sisters were in was excessively great, but still abundantly greater, when Cinderilla pulled out of her pocket the other slipper, and put it on her foot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	excessively	excessively	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | the astonishment |  |  |  |  | excessively, great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the astonishment *not said here* |  |  |  | still | abundantly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pull out** | past | Cinderilla | Cinderilla's pocket |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | Cinderilla *not said here* | astonishment |  | Cinderilla's foot |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on foot=Destination |

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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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