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title: The poor lady turning about to him, and looking at him with dying ey… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor lady turning about to him, and looking at him with dying eyes, desired him to afford her one little moment to recollect herself. Who acts: poor lady. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 51

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The poor lady turning about to him, and looking at him with dying eyes, desired him to afford her one little moment to recollect herself.

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**Who acts:** poor lady · **What happens:** turn about, look, die, desire, afford, recollect · **To what, where:** Beard, way

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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 (poor lady), 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:pg29021:8:51
# text = The poor lady turning about to him, and looking at him with dying eyes, desired him to afford her one little moment to recollect herself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	recollect	recollect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn about** | gerund | the poor lady *not said here* |  | Beard |  |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the poor lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Beard; with dying eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **desire** | past | the poor lady | Beard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **afford** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the poor lady *not said here* | way |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **recollect** | to-infinitive | the poor lady *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent herself=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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