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title: "What!" she said to him, "when you can call for a kingdom, for gold,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "What!" she said to him, "when you can call for a kingdom, for gold, pearls, rubies, diamonds, for princely garments and wealth untold, is this the time to set your mind upon black puddings!" Who acts: wife, husband, your. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towa
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 6

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"What!" she said to him, "when you can call for a kingdom, for gold, pearls, rubies, diamonds, for princely garments and wealth untold, is this the time to set your mind upon black puddings!"

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**Who acts:** wife, husband, your · **What happens:** say, call, be, set, mind · **To what, where:** husband, time, mind, black puddings · **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, husband, your), 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:pg29021:15:6
# text = "What!" she said to him, "when you can call for a kingdom, for gold, pearls, rubies, diamonds, for princely garments and wealth untold, is this the time to set your mind upon black puddings!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	untold	untold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
41	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	puddings	pudding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | wife |  | husband |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *in a quote* | can | husband |  |  |  |  | for a kingdom; for princely garments and wealth; untold *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for kingdom=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* | your mind |  | black puddings |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme upon pudding=Destination |
| 5 | **mind** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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