--- title: "Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King, that… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King, that the meadow you mow belongs to my lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small as mince-meat." Who acts: Good people, King, meadow. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce R --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/74/) [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/) / 74 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 74 "Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King, that the meadow you mow belongs to my lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small as mince-meat." **Who acts:** Good people, King, meadow · **What happens:** mow, not tell, belong, chop · **To what, where:** King, meadow · **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 (Good people, King, meadow), 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:pg29021:10:74 # text = "Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King, that the meadow you mow belongs to my lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small as mince-meat." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 mowing mow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 mow mow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 Marquis Marquis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Carabas Carabas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 chopped chop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 obl _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 mince mince NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mow** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Good people | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | the King *= king* | | the King | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **mow** *in a quote* | present | the King *= king* | the meadow *not said here* | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient | | 4 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | the meadow | | | | | to my lord | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **chop** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | the King *= king* | | | | as small; as mince meat | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/75/) - ↑ back to [Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/)