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title: The good folks were extremely glad to see their children once more a… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The good folks were extremely glad to see their children once more at home, and this joy continued while the ten crowns lasted; but when the money was all gone, they fell again into their former uneasiness, and resolved to lose them again; and, that they might be the surer of doing it, to carry them
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 68

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The good folks were extremely glad to see their children once more at home, and this joy continued while the ten crowns lasted; but when the money was all gone, they fell again into their former uneasiness, and resolved to lose them again; and, that they might be the surer of doing it, to carry them at a much greater distance than before.

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**Who acts:** good folks, ten crowns, joy, children · **What happens:** be, see, continue, last, fall, resolve · **To what, where:** children, home, joy, former uneasiness, money

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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 (good folks, ten crowns, joy, 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:pg29021:14:68
# text = The good folks were extremely glad to see their children once more at home, and this joy continued while the ten crowns lasted; but when the money was all gone, they fell again into their former uneasiness, and resolved to lose them again; and, that they might be the surer of doing it, to carry them at a much greater distance than before.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
19	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lasted	last	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	uneasiness	uneasiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	again	again	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	62	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
53	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	surer	sure	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	62	advcl	_	_
57	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
58	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
63	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	_
64	at	at	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
66	much	much	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
67	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	68	amod	_	_
68	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
69	than	than	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	before	before	ADV	RB	_	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the good folks |  |  |  |  | extremely, glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the good folks *not said here* | folks's children |  | home |  | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 3 | **continue** | participle |  | this joy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **last** | participle | the ten crowns |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | this joy |  |  |  |  | all, gone *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | again | into children's former uneasiness *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into uneasiness=Result |
| 7 | **resolve** | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **lose** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  | again |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 9 | **is** | might | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **do** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 11 | **carry** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | at a greater distance | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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