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title: Once upon a time, there lived in a certain village, a little country… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time, there lived in a certain village, a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen. Who acts: little country girl. 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 claus
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 3

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Once upon a time, there lived in a certain village, a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen.

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**Who acts:** little country girl · **What happens:** live, see · **To what, where:** certain village, prettiest creature

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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 (little country girl), 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:pg29021:7:3
# text = Once upon a time, there lived in a certain village, a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | a certain village; there |  | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive | a little country girl *not said here* | the prettiest creature |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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