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title: "Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?" — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?" Who acts: Thou. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 46

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"Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?"

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** wish, go, be · **To what, where:** ball · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), 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:pg29021:11:46
# text = "Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wishest	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	couldest	could	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | could | thou |  |  | the ball |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | ball |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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