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title: In spite of his madness I think he will be a little astonished by th… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite of his madness I think he will be a little astonished by the request that I counsel you to make of him; it is that he should give you the skin of that ass he loves so dearly, and which supplies him so profusely with the means of paying all his expenses. Who acts: I, King, request, the. A se
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 86

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In spite of his madness I think he will be a little astonished by the request that I counsel you to make of him; it is that he should give you the skin of that ass he loves so dearly, and which supplies him so profusely with the means of paying all his expenses.

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**Who acts:** I, King, request, the · **What happens:** think, astonish, be, counsel, make, love · **To what, where:** spite, little astonished request, you, ass, King, expenses · **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 (I, King, request, the), 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:pg29021:15:86
# text = In spite of his madness I think he will be a little astonished by the request that I counsel you to make of him; it is that he should give you the skin of that ass he loves so dearly, and which supplies him so profusely with the means of paying all his expenses.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	counsel	counsel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
45	supplies	supply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	profusely	profusely	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
49	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	nsubj	_	_
51	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
52	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
53	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	ccomp	_	_
54	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	56	det:predet	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	expenses	expense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  | spite of King's madness |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **astonish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | future | King |  |  |  |  | by a little astonished request | tree rules |
| 4 | **counsel** *speech: other* | present | I | a little astonished request |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **is** | should · present | request |  | you |  |  | give *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **love** | present | King | that ass *not said here* |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ass=Stimulus |
| 8 | **supply** | present |  |  | King |  |  | profusely *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 9 | **mean** | present | the |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **pay** | gerund |  | King's expenses |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Asset |
| 11 | **spite** |  |  | King's madness |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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