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description: He then shut the door, and went into the grand-mother's bed, expecting Little Red Riding-Hood, who came some time afterwards, and knock'd at the door, _tap, tap_. Who acts: pull, Riding. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its depend
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 23

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He then shut the door, and went into the grand-mother's bed, expecting Little Red Riding-Hood, who came some time afterwards, and knock'd at the door, \_tap, tap\_.

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**Who acts:** pull, Riding · **What happens:** shut, go, expect, come, knock · **To what, where:** door, bed, Little Red

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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 (pull, Riding), 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:pg29021:7:23
# text = He then shut the door, and went into the grand-mother's bed, expecting Little Red Riding-Hood, who came some time afterwards, and knock'd at the door, _tap, tap_.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Riding	Riding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	knock	knock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | past | pull | the door |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | pull *not said here* |  |  | the grand mother's bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **expect** | gerund | pull *not said here* | Little Red |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | Riding and Hood |  |  |  | time | afterwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **knock** | infinitive |  | the door and \_ tap and tap |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

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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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