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title: At last they decided that some great sorrow had caused this terrible… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they decided that some great sorrow had caused this terrible fever. Who acts: doctors, great sorrow. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 131

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At last they decided that some great sorrow had caused this terrible fever.

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**Who acts:** doctors, great sorrow · **What happens:** decide, cause · **To what, where:** last, terrible fever · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (doctors, great sorrow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg29021:674`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:15:131
# text = At last they decided that some great sorrow had caused this terrible fever.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | doctors *= doctor* |  |  | last |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cause** | past · perfect | some great sorrow | this terrible fever |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fever=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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