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title: As they began to be a little warm, they heard three or four great ra… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: As they began to be a little warm, they heard three or four great raps at the door; this was the Ogre, who was come home. Who acts: wolves, this, Ogre. 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 91

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As they began to be a little warm, they heard three or four great raps at the door; this was the Ogre, who was come home.

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**Who acts:** wolves, this, Ogre · **What happens:** begin, be, hear · **To what, where:** three great raps, door, Ogre

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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 (wolves, this, Ogre), 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:pg29021:14:91
# text = As they began to be a little warm, they heard three or four great raps at the door; this was the Ogre, who was come home.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	raps	rap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; warm *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | wolves *= wolf* | three great raps |  | the door |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rap=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this | the Ogre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the Ogre |  |  |  |  | come, home *property* | tree rules |

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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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