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title: Turning upon him, in her anger and disappointment she called the poo… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Turning upon him, in her anger and disappointment she called the poor man all the abusive names that she could think of. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 5

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Turning upon him, in her anger and disappointment she called the poor man all the abusive names that she could think of.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** turn, call, think, anger · **To what, where:** poor man, anger, abusive names · **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), 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:pg29021:15:5
# text = Turning upon him, in her anger and disappointment she called the poor man all the abusive names that she could think of.
1	Turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	abusive	abusive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | upon husband | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | wife | the poor man |  | wife's anger and disappointment |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | could | wife | all abusive names *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Theme |
| 4 | **anger** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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