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title: Upon this she threw herself at her husband's feet, and begged his pa… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this she threw herself at her husband's feet, and begged his pardon with all the signs of a true repentance for her disobedience. Who acts: Madam, husband. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 20

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Upon this she threw herself at her husband's feet, and begged his pardon with all the signs of a true repentance for her disobedience.

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**Who acts:** Madam, husband · **What happens:** throw, beg, pardon, sign, disobey · **To what, where:** Madam, feet, pardon, true repentance

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, husband), 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:pg29021:8:20
# text = Upon this she threw herself at her husband's feet, and begged his pardon with all the signs of a true repentance for her disobedience.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	repentance	repentance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | Madam | Madam |  | Madam's husband's feet |  | upon this | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon this=Destination |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Madam *not said here* | husband's pardon |  |  |  | with all signs of a true repentance for Madam's disobedience | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient |
| 3 | **pardon** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | a true repentance for Madam's disobedience |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **disobey** |  | Madam |  |  |  |  |  | nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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