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title: Among other things, this poor child was forced twice a day to draw w… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Among other things, this poor child was forced twice a day to draw water above a mile and a half off the house, and bring home a pitcher full of it. Who acts: poor child. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 61

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Among other things, this poor child was forced twice a day to draw water above a mile and a half off the house, and bring home a pitcher full of it.

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**Who acts:** poor child · **What happens:** force, draw, bring · **To what, where:** poor child, water, house, pitcher

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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 (poor child), 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:pg29021:7:61
# text = Among other things, this poor child was forced twice a day to draw water above a mile and a half off the house, and bring home a pitcher full of it.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	18	conj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
28	home	home	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past · passive |  | this poor child |  |  | day | among other things | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **draw** | to-infinitive | this poor child *not said here* | water |  | the house |  | above a mile and a half | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme off house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive |  | a pitcher |  |  |  | full, home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pitcher=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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