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title: She took then the little key, and opened it trembling; but could not… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: She took then the little key, and opened it trembling; but could not at first see any thing plainly, because the windows were shut. Who acts: unhappiness, windows. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 2

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She took then the little key, and opened it trembling; but could not at first see any thing plainly, because the windows were shut.

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**Who acts:** unhappiness, windows · **What happens:** take, open, tremble, not see, be · **To what, where:** little key, key, thing

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unhappiness, windows), 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:pg29021:8:2
# text = She took then the little key, and opened it trembling; but could not at first see any thing plainly, because the windows were shut.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | unhappiness | the little key |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | past | unhappiness *not said here* | key |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund | unhappiness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **see** | could |  | any thing |  |  |  | first, plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | the windows |  |  |  |  | shut *property* | tree rules |

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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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