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title: He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut t… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut the Queen's throat; and going up into her chamber, with intent to do it at once, he put himself into as great a fury as he could possibly, and came into the young Queen's room with his dagger in his hand. Who acts: child. A sentence 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 22

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He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut the Queen's throat; and going up into her chamber, with intent to do it at once, he put himself into as great a fury as he could possibly, and came into the young Queen's room with his dagger in his hand.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** take, save, cut, go up, do, put · **To what, where:** resolution, own life, throat, chamber, child, great fury

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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:pg29021:10:22
# text = He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut the Queen's throat; and going up into her chamber, with intent to do it at once, he put himself into as great a fury as he could possibly, and came into the young Queen's room with his dagger in his hand.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
48	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	's	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | child | a resolution |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolution=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | might | child | child's own life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 3 | **cut** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the Queen's throat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product |
| 4 | **go up** | gerund | child *not said here* |  |  | Queen's chamber |  | with intent | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | throat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **put** | past | child | child |  | a great fury |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal |
| 7 | **come** | past | child *not said here* |  |  | the young Queen's room |  | with child's dagger in child's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |

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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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