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title: There reigned over all a most frightful silence; the image of death… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: There reigned over all a most frightful silence; the image of death everywhere shewed itself, and there was nothing to be seen but stretched out bodies of men and animals, all seeming to be dead. Who acts: image, nothing. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thom
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3, sentence 15

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There reigned over all a most frightful silence; the image of death everywhere shewed itself, and there was nothing to be seen but stretched out bodies of men and animals, all seeming to be dead.

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**Who acts:** image, nothing · **What happens:** reign, shew, be, see, stretch out, seem · **To what, where:** frightful silence, image, bodies, death

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (image, nothing), 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:pg29021:9:15
# text = There reigned over all a most frightful silence; the image of death everywhere shewed itself, and there was nothing to be seen but stretched out bodies of men and animals, all seeming to be dead.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	shewed	shew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
35	seeming	seem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | participle |  |  |  | all frightful silence; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shew** | past | the image of death | image |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **stretch out** | participle | nothing *not said here* | bodies of men and animals |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 6 | **seem** | gerund | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **image** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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