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title: He was told that it was a scullion called Donkey-skin because of the… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He was told that it was a scullion called Donkey-skin because of the skin which she always wore, and that she was so dirty and unpleasant that no one took any notice of her, or even spoke to her; she had just been taken out of pity to look after the geese. Who acts: intent, scullion, skin, one. A se
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 124

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He was told that it was a scullion called Donkey-skin because of the skin which she always wore, and that she was so dirty and unpleasant that no one took any notice of her, or even spoke to her; she had just been taken out of pity to look after the geese.

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**Who acts:** intent, scullion, skin, one · **What happens:** tell, be, call, wear, take, speak · **To what, where:** farm, scullion, Donkey skin, skin, notice, pity · **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 (intent, scullion, skin, one), 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:pg29021:15:124
# text = He was told that it was a scullion called Donkey-skin because of the skin which she always wore, and that she was so dirty and unpleasant that no one took any notice of her, or even spoke to her; she had just been taken out of pity to look after the geese.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	scullion	scullion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	just	just	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
50	out	out	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
55	after	after	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | farm |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | intent | a scullion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a scullion *not said here* | Donkey skin |  |  |  | because the skin | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent skin=Recipient |
| 4 | **wear** | past | skin | the skin |  |  |  | always *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |
| 5 | **is** | past | skin |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | past | no one | any notice of skin |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | no one *not said here* |  | skin |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |
| 9 | **take out** | past · perfect · passive |  | skin |  | pity |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after the geese |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 11 | **notice** |  |  | skin |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication 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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