--- title: They would make a good feast of what we have left here; but then it… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: They would make a good feast of what we have left here; but then it was you, William, who had a mind to lose them; I told you we should repent of it: what are they now doing in the forest? Who acts: children, we, feast, William. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/55/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/) / 55 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 55 They would make a good feast of what we have left here; but then it was you, William, who had a mind to lose them; I told you we should repent of it: what are they now doing in the forest? **Who acts:** children, we, feast, William, mind, I · **What happens:** make, leave, be, have, lose, tell · **To what, where:** good feast, you, mind, children, forest · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (children, we, feast, William), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:14:55 # text = They would make a good feast of what we have left here; but then it was you, William, who had a mind to lose them; I told you we should repent of it: what are they now doing in the forest? 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nmod _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 repent repent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 obj _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 43 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | would | children *= child* | a good feast | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product | | 2 | **leave** | present · perfect | we | | | here | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | feast | you | | | then | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | William | a mind | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **lose** | to-infinitive | a mind *not said here* | children *= child* | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **repent** | should | we | | | | | of feast | tree rules | | 8 | **do** | present · progressive | children *= child* | | | the forest | now | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/56/) - ↑ back to [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/)