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title: No wonder therefore 'tis, if over-power'd, So many of them has the W… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: No wonder therefore 'tis, if over-power'd, So many of them has the Wolf devour'd. Who acts: Wolf. 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 47

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No wonder therefore 'tis, if over-power'd, So many of them has the Wolf devour'd.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** be, overpower, devour · **To what, where:** wonder, many

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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 (Wolf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg29021:119`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:7:47
# text = No wonder therefore 'tis, if over-power'd, So many of them has the Wolf devour'd.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	tis	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	over-power	overpower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
9	'd	'd	X	GW	_	8	goeswith	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	devour	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
19	'd	'd	X	GW	_	18	goeswith	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | no wonder |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **overpower** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **devour** | present · perfect | the Wolf | many of beauties |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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