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title: "Y--es," cried Cinderilla, with a great sigh. — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "Y--es," cried Cinderilla, with a great sigh. Who acts: Y es. 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 of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 47

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"Y--es," cried Cinderilla, with a great sigh.

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**Who acts:** Y es · **What happens:** cry

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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 (Y es), 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:pg29021:11:47
# text = "Y--es," cried Cinderilla, with a great sigh.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Y	y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Y es |  |  |  |  | with a great sigh | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sigh=Theme |

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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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