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title: "Give me quickly," cried he, "my boots of seven leagues, that I may… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "Give me quickly," cried he, "my boots of seven leagues, that I may go and catch them." Who acts: you, Ogre. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 140

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"Give me quickly," cried he, "my boots of seven leagues, that I may go and catch them."

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**Who acts:** you, Ogre · **What happens:** give, cry, go, catch · **To what, where:** me, Ogre, leagues · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ogre), 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:pg29021:14:140
# text = "Give me quickly," cried he, "my boots of seven leagues, that I may go and catch them."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  | quickly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | you *not said here* | Ogre |  |  |  | my boots of seven leagues *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | may | Ogre |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ogre *not said here* | leagues *= league* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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