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title: The Prince took the cake greedily from the man's hands, and ate it w… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince took the cake greedily from the man's hands, and ate it with such voracity that the doctors who were present did not fail to say that this haste was not a good sign. Who acts: Prince, doctors, haste. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], w
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 153

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The Prince took the cake greedily from the man's hands, and ate it with such voracity that the doctors who were present did not fail to say that this haste was not a good sign.

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**Who acts:** Prince, doctors, haste · **What happens:** take, eat, be, not fail, say, not be · **To what, where:** cake, hands, good sign · **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 (Prince, doctors, haste), 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:pg29021:15:153
# text = The Prince took the cake greedily from the man's hands, and ate it with such voracity that the doctors who were present did not fail to say that this haste was not a good sign.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	voracity	voracity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Prince | the cake |  | the man's hands |  | greedily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent cake=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **eat** | past | the Prince *not said here* | cake |  |  |  | with such voracity | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the doctors |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **fail** | past · do-support | the doctors |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the doctors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | past | this haste | a good sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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