--- title: It is true, that this child no sooner began to prattle, but he said… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: It is true, that this child no sooner began to prattle, but he said a thousand pretty things, and that in all his actions there was something so taking, that he charmed every-body. Who acts: brat, child. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Car --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/36/) [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/) / [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/) / 36 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 36 It is true, that this child no sooner began to prattle, but he said a thousand pretty things, and that in all his actions there was something so taking, that he charmed every-body. **Who acts:** brat, child · **What happens:** be, begin, prattle, say, take, charm · **To what, where:** thousand pretty things, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (brat, child), 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:pg29021:12:36 # text = It is true, that this child no sooner began to prattle, but he said a thousand pretty things, and that in all his actions there was something so taking, that he charmed every-body. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 prattle prattle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 conj _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 charmed charm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | brat | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** | past | brat *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **prattle** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | brat *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | child | thousand pretty things | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 5 | **take** | gerund | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **charm** | past | child | every body | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer | | 7 | **act** | | child | | | | | | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/37/) - ↑ back to [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/)