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title: She took the finest flour, and newest eggs and freshest butter, and… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: She took the finest flour, and newest eggs and freshest butter, and while she was working them, whether by design or no, a ring which she had on her finger fell into the cake and was mixed in it. Who acts: skin. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 151

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She took the finest flour, and newest eggs and freshest butter, and while she was working them, whether by design or no, a ring which she had on her finger fell into the cake and was mixed in it.

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**Who acts:** skin · **What happens:** take, work, have, fall, mix · **To what, where:** finest flour, eggs, ring, finger, cake

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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 (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:pg29021:15:151
# text = She took the finest flour, and newest eggs and freshest butter, and while she was working them, whether by design or no, a ring which she had on her finger fell into the cake and was mixed in it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	newest	new	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	freshest	fresh	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | skin | the finest flour |  |  |  | newest eggs and freshest butter *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | past · progressive | skin | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material |
| 3 | **have** | past | skin | a ring |  | skin's finger |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | the cake |  | by design and a ring | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by design=Location |
| 5 | **mix** | past · passive |  |  |  | cake |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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