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title: "I have brought you, sir, a rabbit of the warren which my noble lord… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "I have brought you, sir, a rabbit of the warren which my noble lord the Marquis of Carabas" (for that was the title which Puss was pleased to give his master) "has commanded me to present to your Majesty from him." Who acts: Proud, that, title. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 56

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"I have brought you, sir, a rabbit of the warren which my noble lord the Marquis of Carabas" (for that was the title which Puss was pleased to give his master) "has commanded me to present to your Majesty from him."

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**Who acts:** Proud, that, title · **What happens:** bring, lord, be, give, command, present · **To what, where:** you, master, rabbit, Majesty · **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 (Proud, that, title), 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:pg29021:10:56
# text = "I have brought you, sir, a rabbit of the warren which my noble lord the Marquis of Carabas" (for that was the title which Puss was pleased to give his master) "has commanded me to present to your Majesty from him."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	warren	warren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	Puss	Puss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
41	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Proud of Proud's prey *= proud* |  | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 2 | **lord** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for the title | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the title |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | the title *not said here* | Puss's master |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme |
| 6 | **command** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | a rabbit of the warren |  |  |  | sir *obl* | tree rules |
| 7 | **present** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  | your Majesty |  |  | from Puss | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to majesty=Recipient |

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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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