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title: They kept running almost all night, trembling all the while, without… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: They kept running almost all night, trembling all the while, without knowing which way they went. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 130

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They kept running almost all night, trembling all the while, without knowing which way they went.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** keep, run, tremble, know, go · **To what, where:** way

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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 (brothers), 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:pg29021:14:130
# text = They kept running almost all night, trembling all the while, without knowing which way they went.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | which way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | past | brothers *= brother* | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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