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title: "No, no, Madam," cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, no, Madam," cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears, "you shall not die, and yet you shall see your children again; but it must be in my lodgings, where I have concealed them, and I shall deceive the Queen once more, by giving her in your stead a young hind." Who acts: Madam, you, cle
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 25

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"No, no, Madam," cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears, "you shall not die, and yet you shall see your children again; but it must be in my lodgings, where I have concealed them, and I shall deceive the Queen once more, by giving her in your stead a young hind."

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**Who acts:** Madam, you, clerk · **What happens:** cry, not die, see, be, conceal, deceive · **To what, where:** poor clerk, tears, children, lodgings, orders, Queen · **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 (Madam, you, clerk), 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:pg29021:10:25
# text = "No, no, Madam," cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears, "you shall not die, and yet you shall see your children again; but it must be in my lodgings, where I have concealed them, and I shall deceive the Queen once more, by giving her in your stead a young hind."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
38	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	cop	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	lodgings	lodging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	57	advmod	_	_
57	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
60	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	advcl	_	_
61	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	iobj	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	hind	hind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Madam | the poor clerk of the kitchen |  | tears |  | all *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **die** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | you | your children |  |  | yet; again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | must | clerk |  |  | my lodgings |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **conceal** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Madam | orders *= order* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **deceive** *in a quote* | shall | Madam | the Queen |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |
| 7 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | Madam *not said here* | a young hind | Queen | your stead |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hind=Theme |

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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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