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title: When their father had given each of them a piece of bread for their… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 70

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When their father had given each of them a piece of bread for their breakfast, he fancied he might make use of this bread instead of the pebbles, by throwing it in little bits all along the way they should pass; and so he put it up into his pocket.

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**Who acts:** father, each, children · **What happens:** give, piece, fancy, make, throw, pass · **To what, where:** use, little bits, way, pocket, bread

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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 (father, each, 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:pg29021:14:70
# text = When their father had given each of them a piece of bread for their breakfast, he fancied he might make use of this bread instead of the pebbles, by throwing it in little bits all along the way they should pass; and so he put it up into his pocket.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	all	all	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	along	along	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect | children's father |  |  |  |  | for children's breakfast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for breakfast=Asset |
| 2 | **piece** |  | each |  |  |  |  | of bread | tree rules |
| 3 | **fancy** | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | might | father | use of this bread |  |  |  | instead the pebbles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 5 | **throw** | gerund | father *not said here* | use |  | little bits |  | along the way | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bit=Destination |
| 6 | **pass** | should | children *= child* | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 7 | **put up** | past | father | use |  | father's pocket |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 8 | **use** |  |  | this bread |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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