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title: But he drew it cleverly from his mouth, and his desire for the cake… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: But he drew it cleverly from his mouth, and his desire for the cake was forgotten as he examined the fine emerald set in a gold keeper-ring, a ring so small that he knew it could only be worn on the prettiest little finger in the world. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrau
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 155

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But he drew it cleverly from his mouth, and his desire for the cake was forgotten as he examined the fine emerald set in a gold keeper-ring, a ring so small that he knew it could only be worn on the prettiest little finger in the world.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** draw, forget, examine, set, know, wear · **To what, where:** cake, mouth, desire, fine emerald, gold keeper ring, prettiest little finger · **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 (man), 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:pg29021:15:155
# text = But he drew it cleverly from his mouth, and his desire for the cake was forgotten as he examined the fine emerald set in a gold keeper-ring, a ring so small that he knew it could only be worn on the prettiest little finger in the world.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
28	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	only	only	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	ccomp	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	48	amod	_	_
47	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | man | cake |  | man's mouth |  | cleverly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from mouth=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **forget** | past · passive |  | man's desire for the cake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **examine** | past | man | the fine emerald and a ring |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emerald=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | participle |  | the fine emerald and a ring *not said here* |  | a gold keeper ring |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ring=Destination |
| 5 | **know** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **wear** | could · passive |  | cake |  | the prettiest little finger in the world |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **desire** |  | man |  |  |  |  | for the cake | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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