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title: She spake this so very loud, that the children who were at the door,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: She spake this so very loud, that the children who were at the door, began to cry out all together: Who acts: woman, children. 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 62

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She spake this so very loud, that the children who were at the door, began to cry out all together:

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**Who acts:** woman, children · **What happens:** speak, be, begin, cry out · **To what, where:** this, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman, 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:pg29021:14:62
# text = She spake this so very loud, that the children who were at the door, began to cry out all together:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | woman | this |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the children |  |  | the door |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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