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title: As it was a long while since they had eaten a bit, she bought thrice… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: As it was a long while since they had eaten a bit, she bought thrice as much meat as would sup two people. Who acts: butcher, makers, wife. 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 52

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As it was a long while since they had eaten a bit, she bought thrice as much meat as would sup two people.

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**Who acts:** butcher, makers, wife · **What happens:** be, eat, buy, sup · **To what, where:** bit, much meat, two people

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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 (butcher, makers, wife), 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:pg29021:14:52
# text = As it was a long while since they had eaten a bit, she bought thrice as much meat as would sup two people.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	thrice	thrice	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sup	sup	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | butcher |  |  |  | as a long while |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | past · perfect | makers *= maker* | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **buy** | past | wife | much meat |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme |
| 4 | **sup** | would | wife *not said here* | two people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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