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title: They were all brought to the palace, but their coarse red, short, fi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: They were all brought to the palace, but their coarse red, short, fingers would hardly go through the golden hoop as far as the nail. Who acts: coarse red fingers. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 172

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They were all brought to the palace, but their coarse red, short, fingers would hardly go through the golden hoop as far as the nail.

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**Who acts:** coarse red fingers · **What happens:** bring, go · **To what, where:** Princes, palace, golden hoop

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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 (coarse red fingers), 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:pg29021:15:172
# text = They were all brought to the palace, but their coarse red, short, fingers would hardly go through the golden hoop as far as the nail.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
11	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | Princes *= prince* |  | the palace |  | all *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | would | Princes's coarse red fingers |  |  | the golden hoop |  | far, hardly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through hoop=Initial\_Location |

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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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