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title: At last he came into a chamber all gilded with gold, where he saw, u… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he came into a chamber all gilded with gold, where he saw, upon a bed, the curtains of which were all open, the finest sight was ever beheld: a Princess, who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years of age, and whose bright, and in a manner resplendent beauty, had somewhat in it divine.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3, sentence 19

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At last he came into a chamber all gilded with gold, where he saw, upon a bed, the curtains of which were all open, the finest sight was ever beheld: a Princess, who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years of age, and whose bright, and in a manner resplendent beauty, had somewhat in it divine.

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**Who acts:** Scarce, Princess · **What happens:** come, gild, see, be, behold, appear · **To what, where:** last, chamber, curtains, finest sight, fifteen years, manner resplendent beauty

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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 (Scarce, 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:pg29021:9:19
# text = At last he came into a chamber all gilded with gold, where he saw, upon a bed, the curtains of which were all open, the finest sight was ever beheld: a Princess, who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years of age, and whose bright, and in a manner resplendent beauty, had somewhat in it divine.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
43	about	about	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	conj	_	_
47	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
58	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
59	resplendent	resplendent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
62	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	conj	_	_
63	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Scarce |  |  | last |  | into a chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **gild** | participle |  | a chamber *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold; all *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Scarce | the curtains |  |  |  | upon a bed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer curtain=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the curtains; open *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **behold** | past · passive |  | the finest sight |  |  | ever |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **appear** | past | a Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | fifteen years |  |  | of age |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | past | Scarce *not said here* |  |  | a manner resplendent beauty |  | in divine; somewhat *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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