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title: "I will have it so," replied the Queen (and this she spake in the to… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "I will have it so," replied the Queen (and this she spake in the tone of an Ogress, who had a strong desire to eat fresh meat), "and will eat her with a Sauce Robert." Who acts: Queen, Ogress. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], with 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 5

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"I will have it so," replied the Queen (and this she spake in the tone of an Ogress, who had a strong desire to eat fresh meat), "and will eat her with a Sauce Robert."

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**Who acts:** Queen, Ogress · **What happens:** have, reply, eat, intonate · **To what, where:** clerk, strong desire, fresh meat, Madam, Ogress · **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, Ogress), 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:pg29021:10:5
# text = "I will have it so," replied the Queen (and this she spake in the tone of an Ogress, who had a strong desire to eat fresh meat), "and will eat her with a Sauce Robert."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	compound	_	_
16	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Sauce	sauce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | future | the Queen *= queen* | clerk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | a Ogress | a strong desire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a Ogress *not said here* | fresh meat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | future | the Queen *not said here* | Madam |  |  |  | with a Sauce | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 6 | **intonate** |  |  | a Ogress |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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