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title: It was with difficulty that he withdrew from this gloomy little alle… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: It was with difficulty that he withdrew from this gloomy little alley, intent on discovering who the inmate of the tiny room might be. Who acts: figure, farm, intent. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 123

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It was with difficulty that he withdrew from this gloomy little alley, intent on discovering who the inmate of the tiny room might be.

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**Who acts:** figure, farm, intent · **What happens:** be, withdraw, discover, inmate · **To what, where:** difficulty, gloomy little alley

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figure, farm, intent), 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:pg29021:15:123
# text = It was with difficulty that he withdrew from this gloomy little alley, intent on discovering who the inmate of the tiny room might be.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
15	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	discovering	discover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	inmate	inmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | figure |  |  |  |  | with difficulty | tree rules |
| 2 | **withdraw** | past | farm | difficulty *not said here* |  | gloomy little alley |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme from alley=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **discover** | gerund | intent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **inmate** |  |  |  |  |  |  | of the tiny room | 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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