--- title: "Ah!" said he, "I see how thou would'st cheat me, thou cursed woman;… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "Ah!" said he, "I see how thou would'st cheat me, thou cursed woman; I know not why I do not eat up thee too; but it is well for thee that thou art a tough old carrion. Who acts: Ogre, thou, I, bed. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/99/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/) / 99 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 99 "Ah!" said he, "I see how thou would'st cheat me, thou cursed woman; I know not why I do not eat up thee too; but it is well for thee that thou art a tough old carrion. **Who acts:** Ogre, thou, I, bed · **What happens:** say, see, cheat, curse, not know, not eat up · **To what, where:** me, woman, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ogre, thou, I, bed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:14:99 # text = "Ah!" said he, "I see how thou would'st cheat me, thou cursed woman; I know not why I do not eat up thee too; but it is well for thee that thou art a tough old carrion. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 13 would'st would' ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 nsubj _ _ 14 cheat cheat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 18 cursed curse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 24 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 obj _ _ 31 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 nsubj _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 nmod:unmarked _ _ 40 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 nsubj _ _ 41 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 carrion carrion NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Ogre | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **cheat** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou | me | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source | | 4 | **curse** *in a quote* | past | thou | woman | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **eat up** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | thee | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bed | | | | | for thee; that *nmod:unmarked*; well *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/100/) - ↑ back to [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/)