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title: Kings came from all the countries round, some in sedan-chairs, other… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Kings came from all the countries round, some in sedan-chairs, others in beautiful carriages; those who came from the most distant countries rode on elephants and tigers and eagles. Who acts: Kings, those. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with i
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 197

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Kings came from all the countries round, some in sedan-chairs, others in beautiful carriages; those who came from the most distant countries rode on elephants and tigers and eagles.

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**Who acts:** Kings, those · **What happens:** come, ride · **To what, where:** chairs, countries, distant countries

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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 (Kings, those), 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:pg29021:15:197
# text = Kings came from all the countries round, some in sedan-chairs, others in beautiful carriages; those who came from the most distant countries rode on elephants and tigers and eagles.
1	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	round	round	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sedan	sedan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Kings | some chairs and others in beautiful carriages |  | all countries |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the distant countries |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ride** | past | those |  |  |  |  | on elephants and tigers and eagles | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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