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title: There were some married women, too, who sent letters by him to their… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: There were some married women, too, who sent letters by him to their husbands, but they paid him so ill that it was not worth his while, and turned to such small account, that he scorned ever to reckon what he got that way. Who acts: married women, letters, expedition, Thumb. A sentence of «The Fair
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 162

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There were some married women, too, who sent letters by him to their husbands, but they paid him so ill that it was not worth his while, and turned to such small account, that he scorned ever to reckon what he got that way.

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**Who acts:** married women, letters, expedition, Thumb · **What happens:** be, send, pay, not be, turn, scorn · **To what, where:** letters, husbands, Thumb, such small account, way

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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 (married women, letters, expedition, Thumb), 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:pg29021:14:162
# text = There were some married women, too, who sent letters by him to their husbands, but they paid him so ill that it was not worth his while, and turned to such small account, that he scorned ever to reckon what he got that way.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	scorned	scorn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	44	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
45	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	47	obj	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
48	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	det	_	_
49	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | some married women |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past |  | letters | letters's husbands |  |  | by Thumb | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to husband=Destination |
| 3 | **pay** | past | letters *= letter* | Thumb |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | expedition |  |  |  | while | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | past |  |  |  | such small account |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to account=Trajectory |
| 6 | **scorn** | past | Thumb |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **reckon** | to-infinitive | Thumb *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **get** | past | Thumb | that way |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary way=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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