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title: Be that as it may, Donkey-skin, either having seen him, or having he… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Be that as it may, Donkey-skin, either having seen him, or having heard him spoken of with praise, was overjoyed to think that she might become known to him. Who acts: remembrance, Donkey skin, farm, skin. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with i
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 149

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Be that as it may, Donkey-skin, either having seen him, or having heard him spoken of with praise, was overjoyed to think that she might become known to him.

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**Who acts:** remembrance, Donkey skin, farm, skin · **What happens:** be, see, hear, speak, overjoy, think · **To what, where:** Donkey skin, farm · **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 (remembrance, Donkey skin, farm, 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:pg29021:15:149
# text = Be that as it may, Donkey-skin, either having seen him, or having heard him spoken of with praise, was overjoyed to think that she might become known to him.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
12	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
33	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | may · infinitive | remembrance | Donkey skin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund · perfect | Donkey skin *not said here* | farm |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund · perfect | Donkey skin *not said here* | farm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | farm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of praise | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **overjoy** | past · passive |  | Donkey skin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **become** | might | skin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **know** | participle | skin *not said here* |  | farm |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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