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title: These folks affirm, that they were very well assured of this, and th… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: These folks affirm, that they were very well assured of this, and the more, as having drank and eaten often at the faggot-maker's house. Who acts: folks. 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 157

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These folks affirm, that they were very well assured of this, and the more, as having drank and eaten often at the faggot-maker's house.

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**Who acts:** folks · **What happens:** affirm, assure, have, eat · **To what, where:** folks, drank, house

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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 (folks), 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:pg29021:14:157
# text = These folks affirm, that they were very well assured of this, and the more, as having drank and eaten often at the faggot-maker's house.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	affirm	affirm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	drank	drank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	faggot	faggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affirm** | present | this folks |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **assure** | past · passive |  | folks *= folk* |  |  |  | of this; well *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of this=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | drank |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drank=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | participle |  |  |  | the faggot maker's house |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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