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title: It was not that the faggot-maker was not, perhaps, more vexed than h… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not that the faggot-maker was not, perhaps, more vexed than his wife, but that she teized him, and that he was of the humour of a great many others, who love wives who speak right, but think those very importunate who are always in the right. Who acts: tongue, woman, lord, great many others. 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 59

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It was not that the faggot-maker was not, perhaps, more vexed than his wife, but that she teized him, and that he was of the humour of a great many others, who love wives who speak right, but think those very importunate who are always in the right.

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**Who acts:** tongue, woman, lord, great many others, wives · **What happens:** not be, teiz, be, love, speak, think · **To what, where:** lord, wives, importunate right · **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 (tongue, woman, lord, great many others), 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:pg29021:14:59
# text = It was not that the faggot-maker was not, perhaps, more vexed than his wife, but that she teized him, and that he was of the humour of a great many others, who love wives who speak right, but think those very importunate who are always in the right.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	faggot	faggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	vexed	vex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	teized	teiz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
41	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
48	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
49	very	very	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	importunate	importunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
52	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
53	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	56	advmod	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | tongue |  |  |  |  | than lord's wife; vex *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **teiz** | past | woman | lord |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | lord |  |  |  |  | of the humour; of a great many others | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | present | a great many others | wives |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | wives |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | a great many others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  | that importunate right |  | always *property* | 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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