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title: The Ogre's wife, who believed she could conceal them from her husban… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ogre's wife, who believed she could conceal them from her husband till morning, let them come in, and brought them to warm themselves at a very good fire; for there was a whole sheep upon the spit roasting for the Ogre's supper. Who acts: wife, wolves, spit. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Cha
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 90

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The Ogre's wife, who believed she could conceal them from her husband till morning, let them come in, and brought them to warm themselves at a very good fire; for there was a whole sheep upon the spit roasting for the Ogre's supper.

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**Who acts:** wife, wolves, spit · **What happens:** believe, conceal, let, come in, bring, warm · **To what, where:** wolves, good fire, whole sheep · **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 (wife, wolves, spit), 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:pg29021:14:90
# text = The Ogre's wife, who believed she could conceal them from her husband till morning, let them come in, and brought them to warm themselves at a very good fire; for there was a whole sheep upon the spit roasting for the Ogre's supper.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
41	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	acl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | the Ogre's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **conceal** | could | wife | wolves *= wolf* |  |  | morning | from wife's husband | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from husband=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come in** | infinitive | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | past | the Ogre's wife *not said here* | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **warm** | to-infinitive | the Ogre's wife *not said here* | wolves *= wolf* |  | a good fire |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | a whole sheep |  |  |  | upon the spit | tree rules |
| 8 | **roast** | gerund | the spit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Ogre's supper | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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