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title: The old Fairy's turn coming next, with a head shaking more with spit… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The old Fairy's turn coming next, with a head shaking more with spite than age, she said, that the Princess should have her hand pierced with a spindle, and die of the wound. Who acts: old turn, head, Princess, hand. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bo
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 82

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The old Fairy's turn coming next, with a head shaking more with spite than age, she said, that the Princess should have her hand pierced with a spindle, and die of the wound.

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**Who acts:** old turn, head, Princess, hand · **What happens:** come, shake, say, have, pierce, die · **To what, where:** more, hand · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old turn, head, Princess, hand), 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:pg29021:8:82
# text = The old Fairy's turn coming next, with a head shaking more with spite than age, she said, that the Princess should have her hand pierced with a spindle, and die of the wound.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	next	next	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | Fairy's old turn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund | a head | more |  |  | than age | with spite | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent more=Patient with spite=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fairy's old turn |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | should | the Princess | Princess's hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pierce** | participle | Princess's hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a spindle | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spindle=Instrument |
| 6 | **die** | infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the wound | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of wound=Causer |

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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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