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title: In vain did her husband represent to her their extreme poverty; she… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In vain did her husband represent to her their extreme poverty; she would not consent to it; she was, indeed poor, but she was their mother. Who acts: husband, can'st. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 34

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In vain did her husband represent to her their extreme poverty; she would not consent to it; she was, indeed poor, but she was their mother.

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**Who acts:** husband, can'st · **What happens:** do, represent, not consent, be · **To what, where:** vain, poverty, mother

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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 (husband, can'st), 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:pg29021:14:34
# text = In vain did her husband represent to her their extreme poverty; she would not consent to it; she was, indeed poor, but she was their mother.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	represent	represent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  | vain |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **represent** | present | can'st's husband |  |  |  |  | to can'st's extreme poverty | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to poverty=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **consent** | would | can'st |  | poverty |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | can'st |  |  |  |  | indeed, poor *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | can'st | children's mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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