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title: When a hundred years were gone and past, the son of the King then re… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: When a hundred years were gone and past, the son of the King then reigning, and who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, being gone a-hunting on that side of the country, asked, what were those towers which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood? Who acts: hundred years, son
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3, sentence 5

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When a hundred years were gone and past, the son of the King then reigning, and who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, being gone a-hunting on that side of the country, asked, what were those towers which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood?

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**Who acts:** hundred years, son, family · **What happens:** be, reign, sleep, hunt, ask, see · **To what, where:** that, side, towers, family, middle

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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 (hundred years, son, family), 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:pg29021:9:5
# text = When a hundred years were gone and past, the son of the King then reigning, and who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, being gone a-hunting on that side of the country, asked, what were those towers which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood?
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	reigning	reign	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	amod	_	_
29	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
32	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	48	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
48	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obj	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
57	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
58	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | hundred years |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | hundred years *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reign** | gerund | the son of the King |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  | that |  | of another family and that towers | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | go *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hunt** | gerund |  |  |  | that side of the country |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | another family and that towers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is a** | past | another family and that towers | that towers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **see** | past | son | another family and that towers |  | the middle of a great thick wood |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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