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title: A Fairy, who was at his birth, affirmed, he would be very lovable fo… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: A Fairy, who was at his birth, affirmed, he would be very lovable for all that, since he should be indowed with abundance of wit. Who acts: Fairy. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 33

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A Fairy, who was at his birth, affirmed, he would be very lovable for all that, since he should be indowed with abundance of wit.

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**Who acts:** Fairy · **What happens:** be, affirm, indow · **To what, where:** birth, son

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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:pg29021:12:33
# text = A Fairy, who was at his birth, affirmed, he would be very lovable for all that, since he should be indowed with abundance of wit.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	affirmed	affirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	lovable	lovable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	indowed	indow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a Fairy and son's birth |  |  | son's birth |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **affirm** | participle |  | son's birth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | would | a Fairy and son's birth |  |  |  |  | lovable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **indow** | should · passive |  | son |  |  |  | with abundance of wit | 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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