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title: "CURIOSITY MADE HIM PUT HIS EYE TO THE KEYHOLE" _facing_ 150 — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "CURIOSITY MADE HIM PUT HIS EYE TO THE KEYHOLE" _facing_ 150 Who acts: CURIOSITY, HIM. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 1

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"CURIOSITY MADE HIM PUT HIS EYE TO THE KEYHOLE" \_facing\_ 150

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**Who acts:** CURIOSITY, HIM · **What happens:** make, put, face · **To what, where:** HIM, EYE, 150

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CURIOSITY, HIM), 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:pg29021:6:1
# text = "CURIOSITY MADE HIM PUT HIS EYE TO THE KEYHOLE" _facing_ 150
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	CURIOSITY	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	MADE	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	HIM	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	PUT	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	EYE	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	KEYHOLE	keyhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
15	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | past | CURIOSITY | HIM *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | HIM *= he* *not said here* | CURIOSITY's EYE |  |  |  | to the KEYHOLE | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal |
| 3 | **face** | gerund | CURIOSITY *not said here* | 150 |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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