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title: He then went up, groping all the way, into his daughters' chamber; a… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He then went up, groping all the way, into his daughters' chamber; and came to the bed where the little boys lay, who were every soul of them fast asleep; except Little Thumb, who was terribly afraid when he found the Ogre fumbling about his head, as he had done about his brothers'. Who acts: Ogre, 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 121

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He then went up, groping all the way, into his daughters' chamber; and came to the bed where the little boys lay, who were every soul of them fast asleep; except Little Thumb, who was terribly afraid when he found the Ogre fumbling about his head, as he had done about his brothers'.

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**Who acts:** Ogre, little boys, Little Thumb · **What happens:** go up, grope, come, lay, be, find · **To what, where:** way, chamber, bed, soul, Ogre

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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 (Ogre, little boys, Little Thumb), 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:pg29021:14:121
# text = He then went up, groping all the way, into his daughters' chamber; and came to the bed where the little boys lay, who were every soul of them fast asleep; except Little Thumb, who was terribly afraid when he found the Ogre fumbling about his head, as he had done about his brothers'.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	groping	grope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
35	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	except	except	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	advcl	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	fumbling	fumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
51	about	about	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	ccomp	_	_
59	about	about	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Ogre |  |  |  | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **grope** | gerund | Ogre *not said here* | all way |  | Ogre's daughters's chamber |  |  | vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | past | Ogre *not said here* |  |  | the bed |  | except Little Thumb | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **lay** | present | the little boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | every soul |  |  |  | of boys *= boy* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | Little Thumb |  |  |  |  | afraid, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **find** | past | Ogre | the Ogre |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Topic |
| 8 | **fumble** | gerund | Ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Ogre's head | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about head=Location |
| 9 | **do** | past · perfect | Ogre |  |  |  |  | about Ogre's brothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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