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title: One might wonder how that the faggot-maker could have so many childr… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: One might wonder how that the faggot-maker could have so many children in so little a time; but it was because his wife went nimbly about her business and never brought fewer than two at a birth. Who acts: One, faggot maker, eldest. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perr
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 25

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One might wonder how that the faggot-maker could have so many children in so little a time; but it was because his wife went nimbly about her business and never brought fewer than two at a birth.

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**Who acts:** One, faggot maker, eldest · **What happens:** wonder, have, be, not bring · **To what, where:** many children, two, birth

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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 (One, faggot maker, eldest), 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:pg29021:14:25
# text = One might wonder how that the faggot-maker could have so many children in so little a time; but it was because his wife went nimbly about her business and never brought fewer than two at a birth.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	faggot	faggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	obj	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | might | One |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | could | the faggot maker | many children |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | eldest *= eld* |  |  |  |  | about wife's business; go, nimbly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **bring** | past | eldest *= eld* *not said here* | two |  | a birth |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent two=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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