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title: "'AM I COME HITHER TO SERVE YOU WITH WATER, PRAY?'" — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "'AM I COME HITHER TO SERVE YOU WITH WATER, PRAY?'" Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "'what Is This I See?' Said Her Mother" 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "'what Is This I See?' Said Her Mother" 28, sentence 1

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"'AM I COME HITHER TO SERVE YOU WITH WATER, PRAY?'"

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** come, serve, pray · **To what, where:** AM, YOU

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "'what Is This I See?' Said Her Mother" 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg29021:3:1
# text = "'AM I COME HITHER TO SERVE YOU WITH WATER, PRAY?'"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	AM	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	COME	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	HITHER	hither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	TO	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	SERVE	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	WITH	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	WATER	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	PRAY	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | I | AM |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **serve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | YOU |  |  | with WATER | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with water=Theme |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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