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title: "Enough! woman," he cried at last; "put a check upon thy froward ton… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "Enough! woman," he cried at last; "put a check upon thy froward tongue! Who acts: husband. 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 10

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"Enough! woman," he cried at last; "put a check upon thy froward tongue!

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** cry, put · **To what, where:** last, check, froward tongue · **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 (husband), 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:pg29021:15:10
# text = "Enough! woman," he cried at last; "put a check upon thy froward tongue!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	froward	froward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | husband |  |  | last |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | husband *not said here* | a check |  | thy froward tongue |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent check=Theme upon tongue=Destination |

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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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