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title: The noise of this change spreading every where, all the young Prince… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The noise of this change spreading every where, all the young Princes of the neighbouring kingdoms strove all they could to gain her favour, and almost all of them asked her in marriage; but she found not one of them had wit enough for her, and she gave them all a hearing, but would not engage herse
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 7

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The noise of this change spreading every where, all the young Princes of the neighbouring kingdoms strove all they could to gain her favour, and almost all of them asked her in marriage; but she found not one of them had wit enough for her, and she gave them all a hearing, but would not engage herself to any.

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**Who acts:** noise, all, change · **What happens:** spread, strive, gain, ask, not find, wit · **To what, where:** favour, noise, marriage, one, hearing, Princes

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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 (noise, all, change), 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:pg29021:13:7
# text = The noise of this change spreading every where, all the young Princes of the neighbouring kingdoms strove all they could to gain her favour, and almost all of them asked her in marriage; but she found not one of them had wit enough for her, and she gave them all a hearing, but would not engage herself to any.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj:outer	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	wit	wit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	acl:relcl	_	_
46	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	iobj	_	_
54	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	56	det:predet	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
58	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
59	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	61	advmod	_	_
61	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
62	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	61	obj	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | gerund | the noise of this change *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strive** | past | the noise of this change |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gain** | could | all | noise's favour |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | all |  | noise | marriage |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **find** | past | noise | one |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 6 | **wit** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of Princes *= prince*; for noise; enough *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **give** | past | noise | all hearing | Princes *= prince* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient hearing=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **engage** | would | noise *not said here* | noise |  |  |  | to any | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 9 | **noise** |  | this change |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 10 | **favour** |  | noise |  |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=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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