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title: They were not as yet over and above mischievous; but they promised v… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: They were not as yet over and above mischievous; but they promised very fair for it, for they already bit little children, that they might suck their blood. Who acts: Ogresses. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 115

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They were not as yet over and above mischievous; but they promised very fair for it, for they already bit little children, that they might suck their blood.

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**Who acts:** Ogresses · **What happens:** not be, be, promise, bite, suck · **To what, where:** little children, blood

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogresses), 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:pg29021:14:115
# text = They were not as yet over and above mischievous; but they promised very fair for it, for they already bit little children, that they might suck their blood.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	already	already	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	suck	suck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Ogresses *= ogress* |  |  |  | yet | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Ogresses *= ogress* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Ogresses *= ogress* |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bite** | past | Ogresses *= ogress* | little children |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 5 | **suck** | might | Ogresses *= ogress* | Ogresses's blood |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |

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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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