--- title: "A LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME WINDING AND WRIGGLING TOWARDS HER" _facin… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "A LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME WINDING AND WRIGGLING TOWARDS HER" _facing_ 130 Who acts: LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/5/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / ["away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contai…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/5/) / 8 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, sentence 8 "A LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME WINDING AND WRIGGLING TOWARDS HER" \_facing\_ 130 **Who acts:** LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME · **What happens:** wind, wriggle, face · **To what, where:** CAME, 130 This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:5:8 # text = "A LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME WINDING AND WRIGGLING TOWARDS HER" _facing_ 130 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 LONG long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 BLACK black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 PUDDING pudding NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 CAME came NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 WINDING wind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 AND and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 WRIGGLING wriggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 10 TOWARDS towards ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 HER her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 13 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 facing face VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ _ 16 130 130 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wind** *in a quote* | gerund | a LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wriggle** *in a quote* | gerund | a LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME *not said here* | CAME | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **face** | gerund | a LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME *not said here* | 130 | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/5/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/5/9/) - ↑ back to ["away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/5/)