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title: Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in playing tricks upon… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in playing tricks upon each other. Who acts: Nobody. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 116

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Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in playing tricks upon each other.

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**Who acts:** Nobody · **What happens:** go, pass, play · **To what, where:** bed, tricks

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody), 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:pg29021:7:116
# text = Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in playing tricks upon each other.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	12	obl	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Nobody |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pass** | past |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | gerund |  | tricks |  |  |  | upon each | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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