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title: "If thou hadst been at the ball," said one of her sisters, "thou wou… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "If thou hadst been at the ball," said one of her sisters, "thou wouldst not have been tired with it; there came thither the finest Princess, the most beautiful ever was seen with mortal eyes; she shewed us a thousand civilities, and gave us oranges and citrons." Who acts: thou, collation. A sentenc
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 86

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"If thou hadst been at the ball," said one of her sisters, "thou wouldst not have been tired with it; there came thither the finest Princess, the most beautiful ever was seen with mortal eyes; she shewed us a thousand civilities, and gave us oranges and citrons."

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**Who acts:** thou, collation · **What happens:** be, say, not be, come, see, shew · **To what, where:** ball, one, finest Princess, us, oranges · **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, collation), 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:pg29021:11:86
# text = "If thou hadst been at the ball," said one of her sisters, "thou wouldst not have been tired with it; there came thither the finest Princess, the most beautiful ever was seen with mortal eyes; she shewed us a thousand civilities, and gave us oranges and citrons."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
4	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
19	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
29	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	advmod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	shewed	shew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
46	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	civilities	civility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
53	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	iobj	_	_
54	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	citrons	citron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | thou |  |  | the ball |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | one of collation's sisters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | would · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | with ball; tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | past |  | the finest Princess |  | there |  | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | past · passive |  |  |  |  | ever | with mortal eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **shew** *in a quote* | past | collation | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **give** *in a quote* | past | collation *not said here* | oranges and citrons | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient orange=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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