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title: About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young Princess happened one day to divert herself running up and down the palace; when going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of a tower, where a good o
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 88

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About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young Princess happened one day to divert herself running up and down the palace; when going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of a tower, where a good old woman, alone, was spinning with her spindle.

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**Who acts:** King, young Princess, Princess · **What happens:** be, happen, divert, run up, go up, come · **To what, where:** one, Princess, one apartment, little room

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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 (King, young Princess, Princess), 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:pg29021:8:88
# text = About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young Princess happened one day to divert herself running up and down the palace; when going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of a tower, where a good old woman, alone, was spinning with her spindle.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	after	after	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	divert	divert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
30	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	up	up	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
39	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
40	up	up	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
60	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	64	advmod	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
62	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
63	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
66	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	69	aux	_	_
69	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
70	with	with	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	72	nmod:poss	_	_
72	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the King and Queen |  | one of King's houses of pleasure |  | year | go *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past | the young Princess |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **divert** | to-infinitive | the young Princess *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 4 | **run up** | gerund | the young Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go up** | gerund | the King and Queen *not said here* |  |  | one apartment to another |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **come** | past | Princess |  |  | a little room on the top of a tower |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **spin** | past · progressive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Princess's spindle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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