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title: As he was worn out, he fell asleep: and, after reposing himself some… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: As he was worn out, he fell asleep: and, after reposing himself some time he began to snore so frightfully, that the poor children were no less afraid of him, than when he held up his great knife, and was going to cut their throats. Who acts: Ogre, poor children. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Ch
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 146

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As he was worn out, he fell asleep: and, after reposing himself some time he began to snore so frightfully, that the poor children were no less afraid of him, than when he held up his great knife, and was going to cut their throats.

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**Who acts:** Ogre, poor children · **What happens:** wear out, fall, repose, begin, snore, be · **To what, where:** Ogre, time, great knife, throats

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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, poor children), 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:pg29021:14:146
# text = As he was worn out, he fell asleep: and, after reposing himself some time he began to snore so frightfully, that the poor children were no less afraid of him, than when he held up his great knife, and was going to cut their throats.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reposing	repose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	snore	snore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	no	no	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	throats	throat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | past · passive |  | Ogre |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Ogre |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **repose** | gerund | Ogre *not said here* | Ogre |  |  | time |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Ogre | some time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **snore** | to-infinitive | Ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  | frightfully *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | the poor children |  |  |  |  | of Ogre; afraid, less *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hold up** | past | Ogre | Ogre's great knife |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knife=Theme |
| 8 | **go** | past · progressive | Ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **cut** | to-infinitive | Ogre *not said here* | children's throats |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product |

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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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