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title: The horrible donkey-skin which covered her from head to toe revolted… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The horrible donkey-skin which covered her from head to toe revolted her. Who acts: horrible donkey skin. 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 109

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The horrible donkey-skin which covered her from head to toe revolted her.

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**Who acts:** horrible donkey skin · **What happens:** cover, revolt · **To what, where:** skin, head, Princess

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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 (horrible donkey skin), 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:pg29021:15:109
# text = The horrible donkey-skin which covered her from head to toe revolted her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	revolted	revolt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | the horrible donkey skin |  | skin | head |  | to toe | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination |
| 2 | **revolt** | past | the horrible donkey skin | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |

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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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