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title: And drawing the emerald from under his pillow he added: "To prove th… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: And drawing the emerald from under his pillow he added: "To prove the truth of this, I desire to marry her to whom this ring belongs. Who acts: skill, ring. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 162

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And drawing the emerald from under his pillow he added: "To prove the truth of this, I desire to marry her to whom this ring belongs.

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**Who acts:** skill, ring · **What happens:** draw, add, prove, desire, marry, belong · **To what, where:** emerald, pillow, truth · **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 (skill, ring), 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:pg29021:15:162
# text = And drawing the emerald from under his pillow he added: "To prove the truth of this, I desire to marry her to whom this ring belongs.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	To	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund | skill *not said here* | the emerald |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emerald=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | skill |  |  | skill's pillow |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **prove** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the truth of this |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme |
| 4 | **desire** *in a quote* | present | skill |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **marry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | skill *not said here* | truth |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to whom=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | this ring |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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