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title: They ran thro' all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: They ran thro' all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so rich and fine, that they seemed to surpass one another. Who acts: neighbours, wardrobes. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 125

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They ran thro' all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so rich and fine, that they seemed to surpass one another.

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**Who acts:** neighbours, wardrobes · **What happens:** run, be, seem, surpass · **To what, where:** thro, one

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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 (neighbours, wardrobes), 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:pg29021:7:125
# text = They ran thro' all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so rich and fine, that they seemed to surpass one another.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thro	thro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	closets	closet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wardrobes	wardrobe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	surpass	surpass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | neighbours *= neighbour* | thro |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thro=Beneficiary room=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | wardrobes |  |  |  |  | all, rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | wardrobes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | neighbours *= neighbour* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **surpass** | to-infinitive | neighbours *= neighbour* *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=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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