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title: All this somewhat comforted the poor Queen, who was under a grievous… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: All this somewhat comforted the poor Queen, who was under a grievous affliction for having brought into the world such an ugly brat. Who acts: this, poor Queen, grievous affliction, ugly brat. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], w
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 35

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All this somewhat comforted the poor Queen, who was under a grievous affliction for having brought into the world such an ugly brat.

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**Who acts:** this, poor Queen, grievous affliction, ugly brat · **What happens:** comfort, be, have, bring · **To what, where:** poor Queen, grievous affliction, ugly brat, world

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, poor Queen, grievous affliction, ugly brat), 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:pg29021:12:35
# text = All this somewhat comforted the poor Queen, who was under a grievous affliction for having brought into the world such an ugly brat.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	2	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	brat	brat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | past | this | the poor Queen |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the poor Queen |  |  | a grievous affliction |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | a grievous affliction *not said here* | such ugly brat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | participle | such ugly brat *not said here* |  |  | the world |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into world=Destination |

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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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