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title: She uttered a cry of fear, and then again exclaimed in dismay, when… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: She uttered a cry of fear, and then again exclaimed in dismay, when she perceived that this strange occurrence was due to the wish which her husband had so rashly and foolishly spoken. Who acts: wife, strange occurrence, husband, fear. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles P
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 4

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She uttered a cry of fear, and then again exclaimed in dismay, when she perceived that this strange occurrence was due to the wish which her husband had so rashly and foolishly spoken.

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**Who acts:** wife, strange occurrence, husband, fear · **What happens:** utter, exclaim, perceive, be, have, speak · **To what, where:** cry, dismay, due wish · **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 (wife, strange occurrence, husband, fear), 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:pg29021:15:4
# text = She uttered a cry of fear, and then again exclaimed in dismay, when she perceived that this strange occurrence was due to the wish which her husband had so rashly and foolishly spoken.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dismay	dismay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	rashly	rashly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	foolishly	foolishly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | wife | a cry of fear |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | participle | wife *not said here* |  |  | dismay | then; again |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **perceive** | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | this strange occurrence |  |  |  |  | to the due wish | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | wife's husband | the due wish |  |  |  | rashly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | wife's husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | foolishly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **cry** |  | fear |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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