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title: The Fairy then said to Cinderilla: — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fairy then said to Cinderilla: Who acts: Fairy. 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 61

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The Fairy then said to Cinderilla:

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**Who acts:** Fairy · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Cinderilla · **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 (Fairy), 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:pg29021:11:61
# text = The Fairy then said to Cinderilla:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy |  | Cinderilla |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cinderilla=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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