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title: The Ogre, who found himself much tired with his long and fruitless j… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ogre, who found himself much tired with his long and fruitless journey (for these boots of seven leagues extremely fatigue the wearer), had a great mind to rest himself, and, by chance, went to sit down upon the rock where these little boys had hid themselves. Who acts: Ogre, chance, little boys
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 145

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The Ogre, who found himself much tired with his long and fruitless journey (for these boots of seven leagues extremely fatigue the wearer), had a great mind to rest himself, and, by chance, went to sit down upon the rock where these little boys had hid themselves.

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**Who acts:** Ogre, chance, little boys · **What happens:** find, fatigue, have, rest, go, sit down · **To what, where:** Ogre, wearer, great mind, rock, boys

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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, chance, little boys), 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:pg29021:14:145
# text = The Ogre, who found himself much tired with his long and fruitless journey (for these boots of seven leagues extremely fatigue the wearer), had a great mind to rest himself, and, by chance, went to sit down upon the rock where these little boys had hid themselves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fruitless	fruitless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
22	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fatigue	fatigue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wearer	wearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	down	down	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	52	advmod	_	_
49	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl	_	_
53	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
54	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the Ogre | Ogre |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **fatigue** | present |  | the wearer |  |  |  | for this boots; of seven leagues; extremely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wearer=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Ogre | a great mind |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the Ogre *not said here* | Ogre |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | chance |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | chance *not said here* |  |  | the rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rock=Location |
| 7 | **have** | past | this little boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **hide** | past | chance *not said here* | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 9 | **journey** |  | Ogre |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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