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title: Being at a loss for a coachman, "I will go and see," says Cinderilla… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Being at a loss for a coachman, "I will go and see," says Cinderilla, "if there be never a rat in the rat-trap, that we may make a coachman of him." Who acts: Cinderilla, we. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], with its dep
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 54

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Being at a loss for a coachman, "I will go and see," says Cinderilla, "if there be never a rat in the rat-trap, that we may make a coachman of him."

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**Who acts:** Cinderilla, we · **What happens:** be, go, see, say, not be, make · **To what, where:** loss, rat, rat trap, coachman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Cinderilla, we), 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:pg29021:11:54
# text = Being at a loss for a coachman, "I will go and see," says Cinderilla, "if there be never a rat in the rat-trap, that we may make a coachman of him."
1	Being	be	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | gerund |  |  |  | a loss |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at loss=Location |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | future | Cinderilla |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Cinderilla *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Cinderilla |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a rat |  | the rat trap |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** *in a quote* | may | we | a coachman of horse |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coachman=Product |

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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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