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title: They say farther, that his eyes, which were very squinting, seemed t… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: They say farther, that his eyes, which were very squinting, seemed to her all the more bright and sparkling; that their irregularity passed in her judgment for a mark of a violent excess of love; and, in short, that his great red nose had, in her opinion, somewhat of the martial and heroic. Who acts
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 9

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They say farther, that his eyes, which were very squinting, seemed to her all the more bright and sparkling; that their irregularity passed in her judgment for a mark of a violent excess of love; and, in short, that his great red nose had, in her opinion, somewhat of the martial and heroic.

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**Who acts:** qualities, eyes, great red nose, Princess · **What happens:** say, squint, seem, sparkle, pass, have · **To what, where:** Princess, irregularity, judgment, opinion, violent excess · **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 (qualities, eyes, great red nose, Princess), 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:pg29021:14:9
# text = They say farther, that his eyes, which were very squinting, seemed to her all the more bright and sparkling; that their irregularity passed in her judgment for a mark of a violent excess of love; and, in short, that his great red nose had, in her opinion, somewhat of the martial and heroic.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	squinting	squint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	irregularity	irregularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
27	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	excess	excess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
48	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	martial	martial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	obl	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | qualities *= quality* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **squint** | past · progressive | hump's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past | hump's eyes |  | Princess |  |  | bright *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sparkle** | gerund | hump's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | participle |  | qualities's irregularity *not said here* |  | Princess's judgment for a mark of a violent excess of love |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in judgment=Location |
| 6 | **have** | past | hump's great red nose | Princess's opinion |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient |
| 7 | **judge** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  | for a mark of a violent excess of love | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 8 | **mark** |  |  | a violent excess of love |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **opine** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: 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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