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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 24

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"Do it, do it," said she stretching out her neck, "execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved," for she thought them dead ever since they had been taken away without her knowledge.

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**Who acts:** Queen, I, your · **What happens:** do, say, stretch out, execute, go, see · **To what, where:** life, neck, orders, children, poor children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Queen, I, your), 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:pg29021:10:24
# text = "Do it, do it," said she stretching out her neck, "execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved," for she thought them dead ever since they had been taken away without her knowledge.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	much	much	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
42	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
45	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
50	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	49	advmod	_	_
51	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	ccomp	_	_
56	away	away	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	without	without	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | life |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | life |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stretch out** | gerund | Queen | Queen's neck |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 5 | **execute** *in a quote* | infinitive | Queen *not said here* | your orders |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | my children |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 8 | **love** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | my poor children |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 9 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Queen | orders *= order* |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 10 | **take away** | past · perfect · passive |  | orders *= order* |  |  |  | without Queen's knowledge; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 11 | **order** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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