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title: What are you doing, my child?" she asked, seeing the Princess tearin… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: What are you doing, my child?" she asked, seeing the Princess tearing her hair, her beautiful cheeks stained with tears. " Who acts: you, godmother, Princess, beautiful cheeks. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 91

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What are you doing, my child?" she asked, seeing the Princess tearing her hair, her beautiful cheeks stained with tears. "

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**Who acts:** you, godmother, Princess, beautiful cheeks · **What happens:** do, ask, see, tear, stain · **To what, where:** child, Princess, hair

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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 (you, godmother, Princess, beautiful cheeks), 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:pg29021:15:91
# text = What are you doing, my child?" she asked, seeing the Princess tearing her hair, her beautiful cheeks stained with tears. "
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stained	stain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · progressive | you | my child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | godmother | my child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tear** *in a quote* | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | godmother's hair |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hair=Theme |
| 5 | **stain** *in a quote* | past | godmother's beautiful cheeks |  |  |  |  | with tears | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tear=Theme |

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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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