--- title: As she was going thro' the wood, she met with Gaffer Wolf, who had a… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: As she was going thro' the wood, she met with Gaffer Wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he durst not, because of some faggot-makers hard by in the forest. Who acts: Hood, Gaffer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hood, Gaffer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:7:9 # text = As she was going thro' the wood, she met with Gaffer Wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he durst not, because of some faggot-makers hard by in the forest. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 5 thro thro NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Gaffer Gaffer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 durst durst NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 37 case _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 35 faggot faggot NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 makers maker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 38 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · progressive | Hood | thro | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | past | Hood | | | | | with Gaffer; because some faggot makers; by the forest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gaffer=Co-Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | Gaffer | a great mind | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 4 | **eat up** | to-infinitive | Gaffer *not said here* | Hood | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 5 | **not** **durst** | | Gaffer | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/10/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/)