--- title: Once a witless fool, always a witless fool!" and giving free rein to… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Once a witless fool, always a witless fool!" and giving free rein to her vexation and ill-temper she continued to upbraid her husband until his anger also was stirred, and he had wellnigh made a second bid and wished himself a widower. Who acts: wife, husband. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:15:9 # text = Once a witless fool, always a witless fool!" and giving free rein to her vexation and ill-temper she continued to upbraid her husband until his anger also was stirred, and he had wellnigh made a second bid and wished himself a widower. 1 Once once SCONJ IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 witless witless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 9 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 witless witless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 14 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 rein rein NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 vexation vexation NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 upbraid upbraid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 also also ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 stirred stir VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 39 wellnigh wellnigh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 43 amod _ _ 43 bid bid NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 46 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 45 obj _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 widower widower NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | wife *not said here* | free rein | wife's vexation | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rein=Theme to vexation=Recipient | | 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | wife | | | | | once a witless fool and ill temper | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **upbraid** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | wife's husband | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | | 4 | **stir** *in a quote* | past · passive | | husband's anger | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | husband | | | | | wellnigh *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | participle | | a second bid | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bid=Product | | 7 | **wish** *in a quote* | past | wife *not said here* | husband | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **vex** *in a quote* | | wife | | | | | | nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **anger** *in a quote* | | husband | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/10/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)