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title: After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all cove… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all covered over with clotted blood, in which were reflected the bodies of several dead women ranged against the walls: these were all the wives whom Blue Beard had married and murdered one after another. Who acts: unhappiness, these. A sen
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 3

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After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all covered over with clotted blood, in which were reflected the bodies of several dead women ranged against the walls: these were all the wives whom Blue Beard had married and murdered one after another.

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**Who acts:** unhappiness, these · **What happens:** begin, perceive, cover over, clot, reflect, range · **To what, where:** moments, floor, bodies, several dead women, wives, one

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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, these), 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:pg29021:8:3
# text = After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all covered over with clotted blood, in which were reflected the bodies of several dead women ranged against the walls: these were all the wives whom Blue Beard had married and murdered one after another.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	clotted	clot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
40	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	murdered	murder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	obj	_	_
47	after	after	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | unhappiness | some moments *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perceive** | to-infinitive | unhappiness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cover over** | past · passive |  | the floor |  |  |  | with clotted blood; all, over *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme |
| 4 | **clot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | the bodies of several dead women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **range** | participle |  | several dead women *not said here* |  |  |  | against the walls | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | past | these | all wives |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | all wives |  |  | moment |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 9 | **murder** | past |  | one |  |  | after another |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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