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title: She had, by a former husband, two daughters of her own humour and th… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: She had, by a former husband, two daughters of her own humour and they were indeed exactly like her in all things. Who acts: woman, Cinderilla. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 17

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She had, by a former husband, two daughters of her own humour and they were indeed exactly like her in all things.

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**Who acts:** woman, Cinderilla · **What happens:** have, be, humour · **To what, where:** former husband, things

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Cinderilla), 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:pg29021:11:17
# text = She had, by a former husband, two daughters of her own humour and they were indeed exactly like her in all things.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | woman | a former husband |  | all things |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Cinderilla |  |  |  |  | like daughter; exactly, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **humour** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom humour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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