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title: In days long past there lived a poor woodcutter who found life very… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In days long past there lived a poor woodcutter who found life very hard. Who acts: days, poor woodcutter. 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 173

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In days long past there lived a poor woodcutter who found life very hard.

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**Who acts:** days, poor woodcutter · **What happens:** live, find · **To what, where:** poor woodcutter, life

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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 (days, poor woodcutter), 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:pg29021:14:173
# text = In days long past there lived a poor woodcutter who found life very hard.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | days | a poor woodcutter |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woodcutter=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | a poor woodcutter | life |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |

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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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