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title: "O yes," cried she, "but must I go thither as I am, in these poison… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "O yes," cried she, "but must I go thither as I am, in these poison nasty rags?" Who acts: I. 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 63

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"O yes," cried she, "but must I go thither as I am, in these poison nasty rags?"

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** cry, go · **To what, where:** rest, poison nasty rags · **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 (I), 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:pg29021:11:63
# text = "O yes," cried she, "but must I go thither as I am, in these poison nasty rags?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 |  | rest |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | must | I |  |  | poison nasty rags |  | thither *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in rag=Location |

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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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