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title: "Do not afflict yourself so much, Madam," said the Fairy; "your daug… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not afflict yourself so much, Madam," said the Fairy; "your daughter shall have so great a portion of wit, that her want of beauty will scarcely be perceived." Who acts: you, Fairy, daughter, queen. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Care
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 42

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"Do not afflict yourself so much, Madam," said the Fairy; "your daughter shall have so great a portion of wit, that her want of beauty will scarcely be perceived."

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**Who acts:** you, Fairy, daughter, queen · **What happens:** not afflict, say, have, perceive, want · **To what, where:** yourself, great portion, want, beauty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Fairy, daughter, queen), 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:pg29021:12:42
# text = "Do not afflict yourself so much, Madam," said the Fairy; "your daughter shall have so great a portion of wit, that her want of beauty will scarcely be perceived."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	afflict	afflict	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Madam	Madam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **afflict** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | your daughter | a great portion of wit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient |
| 4 | **perceive** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | queen's want of beauty |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **want** *in a quote* |  | queen | beauty |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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