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title: "My lord," he said, "forget my foolish speech; heed not my wishes, b… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "My lord," he said, "forget my foolish speech; heed not my wishes, but cease thy thundering!" Who acts: fortune, my. 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 179

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"My lord," he said, "forget my foolish speech; heed not my wishes, but cease thy thundering!"

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**Who acts:** fortune, my · **What happens:** say, forget, cease, speak, wish · **To what, where:** heed, foolish speech, thundering · **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 (fortune, my), 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:pg29021:14:179
# text = "My lord," he said, "forget my foolish speech; heed not my wishes, but cease thy thundering!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cease	cease	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	thundering	thundering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | fortune | heed  my wishes |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **forget** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my foolish speech |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cease** *in a quote* | present |  | thy thundering |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality thundering=Eventuality |
| 4 | **speak** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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