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title: There came out of it a company of roasters, to the number of twenty,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: There came out of it a company of roasters, to the number of twenty, or thirty, who went to plant themselves in a fine alley of wood, about a very long table, with their larding pins in their hands, and skewers in their caps, who began to work, keeping time, to the tune of a very harmonious song. Wh
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 16

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There came out of it a company of roasters, to the number of twenty, or thirty, who went to plant themselves in a fine alley of wood, about a very long table, with their larding pins in their hands, and skewers in their caps, who began to work, keeping time, to the tune of a very harmonious song.

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**Who acts:** skewers · **What happens:** come out, go, plant, lard, begin, work · **To what, where:** company, roasters, fine alley

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skewers), 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:pg29021:13:16
# text = There came out of it a company of roasters, to the number of twenty, or thirty, who went to plant themselves in a fine alley of wood, about a very long table, with their larding pins in their hands, and skewers in their caps, who began to work, keeping time, to the tune of a very harmonious song.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	roasters	roaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	larding	lard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
41	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
47	skewers	skewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
53	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	advcl	_	_
58	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
65	very	very	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	harmonious	harmonious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past |  | a company of roasters |  | there |  | of ground; thirty *obl*; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **plant** | to-infinitive |  | roasters *= roaster* |  | a fine alley of wood and a long table |  | with alley's larding pins in pins's hands | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with pin=Instrument |
| 4 | **lard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | skewers in skewers's caps |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **work** | to-infinitive | skewers in skewers's caps *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **keep** | gerund | skewers in skewers's caps *not said here* |  |  |  | time | to the tune of a harmonious song | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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