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title: Well then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Well then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging, I give you for gift, that at every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a snake or a toad." Who acts: you, I, that. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, wit
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 86

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Well then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging, I give you for gift, that at every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a snake or a toad."

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**Who acts:** you, I, that · **What happens:** have, disoblige, give, speak, come out · **To what, where:** little breeding, you, word, snake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, that), 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:pg29021:7:86
# text = Well then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging, I give you for gift, that at every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a snake or a toad."
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	disobliging	disoblige	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | you | little breeding |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breeding=Patient |
| 2 | **disoblige** | present · progressive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you | every word *not said here* |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come out** | shall | that | a snake or a toad |  |  |  | for gift; of your mouth; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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