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title: Now the farmer's wife had need of a wench to wash the dishes and to… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the farmer's wife had need of a wench to wash the dishes and to attend to the geese and the pigs, and seeing so dirty a vagrant offered to engage her. Who acts: wife, need, seeing. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree an
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 102

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Now the farmer's wife had need of a wench to wash the dishes and to attend to the geese and the pigs, and seeing so dirty a vagrant offered to engage her.

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**Who acts:** wife, need, seeing · **What happens:** have, wash, attend, see, offer, engage · **To what, where:** need, dishes, dirty vagrant, wife, wench

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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 (wife, need, seeing), 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:pg29021:15:102
# text = Now the farmer's wife had need of a wench to wash the dishes and to attend to the geese and the pigs, and seeing so dirty a vagrant offered to engage her.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wench	wench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	vagrant	vagrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the farmer's wife | need of a wench |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash** | to-infinitive | need of a wench *not said here* | the dishes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
| 3 | **attend** | to-infinitive | need of a wench *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the geese and the pigs | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to goose=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | gerund |  | a dirty vagrant |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vagrant=Stimulus |
| 5 | **offer** | participle | seeing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **engage** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | seeing *not said here* | wife |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 7 | **need** |  |  | a wench |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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