--- title: "It matters not," said the Queen; "my son, on his way home from the… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "It matters not," said the Queen; "my son, on his way home from the chase, has perchance eaten of her cakes; it is a whim such as those who are sick do sometimes have. Who acts: It, Queen, son, cake. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/145/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/) / 145 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 145 "It matters not," said the Queen; "my son, on his way home from the chase, has perchance eaten of her cakes; it is a whim such as those who are sick do sometimes have. **Who acts:** It, Queen, son, cake, whim · **What happens:** not matter, say, have, eat, be · **To what, where:** perchance, whim · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (It, Queen, son, cake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:15:145 # text = "It matters not," said the Queen; "my son, on his way home from the chase, has perchance eaten of her cakes; it is a whim such as those who are sick do sometimes have. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 home home ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 24 perchance perchance NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 whim whim NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 34 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 36 case _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 42 nsubj _ _ 37 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 42 advmod _ _ 42 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **matter** *in a quote* | present | It | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | my son | perchance | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perchance=Patient | | 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | participle | | perchance *not said here* | | | | of Queen's cakes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of cake=Source | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | cake | a whim | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | sick *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a whim | a whim *not said here* | | | | sometimes *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whim=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/146/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)