--- title: "My brothers," said he, "may get their living handsomely enough, by… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "My brothers," said he, "may get their living handsomely enough, by joining their stocks together; but for my part, when I have eaten up my Cat, and made me a muff of his skin, I must die with hunger." Who acts: brothers, brother, scrivener. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Cha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/) / 47 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 47 "My brothers," said he, "may get their living handsomely enough, by joining their stocks together; but for my part, when I have eaten up my Cat, and made me a muff of his skin, I must die with hunger." **Who acts:** brothers, brother, scrivener · **What happens:** say, get, join, eat up, make, die · **To what, where:** living, stocks, Cat, muff, brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (brothers, brother, scrivener), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:10:47 # text = "My brothers," said he, "may get their living handsomely enough, by joining their stocks together; but for my part, when I have eaten up my Cat, and made me a muff of his skin, I must die with hunger." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 handsomely handsomely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 enough enough ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 joining join VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 stocks stock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 muff muff NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My brothers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | may | brother | scrivener's living | | | | handsomely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus | | 3 | **join** *in a quote* | gerund | brother *not said here* | scrivener's stocks | | | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Patient | | 4 | **eat up** *in a quote* | present · perfect | My brothers *= brother* | my Cat | | | | for my part | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | past | | a muff of brother's skin | My brothers *= brother* | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary muff=Product | | 6 | **die** *in a quote* | must | My brothers *= brother* | | | | | with hunger | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **live** *in a quote* | | scrivener | | | | | | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **stock** *in a quote* | | scrivener | | | | | | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/48/) - ↑ back to [Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/)