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title: "What fine glowing embers!" he said, "and what a fine toasting fire! — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "What fine glowing embers!" he said, "and what a fine toasting fire! Who acts: he. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 1

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"What fine glowing embers!" he said, "and what a fine toasting fire!

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**Who acts:** he · **What happens:** glow, say · **To what, where:** embers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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:pg29021:15:1
# text = "What fine glowing embers!" he said, "and what a fine toasting fire!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
5	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	toasting	toasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** *in a quote* | gerund |  | embers |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ember=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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