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title: In the mean while, all the palace awaked; every one thought upon the… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In the mean while, all the palace awaked; every one thought upon their particular business; and as all of them were not in love, they were ready to die for hunger; the chief lady of honour, being as sharp set as other folks, grew very impatient, and told the Princess aloud, That supper was served up
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3, sentence 25

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In the mean while, all the palace awaked; every one thought upon their particular business; and as all of them were not in love, they were ready to die for hunger; the chief lady of honour, being as sharp set as other folks, grew very impatient, and told the Princess aloud, That supper was served up.

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**Who acts:** one, all, love · **What happens:** awak, think, not be, be, die, grow · **To what, where:** palace, love, Princess, supper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one, all, love), 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:pg29021:9:25
# text = In the mean while, all the palace awaked; every one thought upon their particular business; and as all of them were not in love, they were ready to die for hunger; the chief lady of honour, being as sharp set as other folks, grew very impatient, and told the Princess aloud, That supper was served up.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mean	mean	X	AFX	_	4	compound	_	_
4	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
9	awaked	awak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	cop	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
52	very	very	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	62	det	_	_
62	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj:pass	_	_
63	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux:pass	_	_
64	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	conj	_	_
65	up	up	ADP	RP	_	64	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awak** | participle |  | all palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | every one | all palace |  |  | while | upon dreams's particular business | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | all |  |  | love and the chief lady of honour and sharp set |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | love |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** | to-infinitive | love *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for hunger | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for hunger=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | gerund | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as sharp set; as other folks | tree rules |
| 7 | **grow** | past | love and the chief lady of honour and sharp set |  |  |  |  | impatient *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the Princess |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient |
| 9 | **serve up** | past · passive |  | that supper |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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