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title: She even added, that it would be in his power, by virtue of a gift s… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: She even added, that it would be in his power, by virtue of a gift she had just then given him, to bestow on the person he most loved as much wit as he pleased. Who acts: advantage, birth, son. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 34

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She even added, that it would be in his power, by virtue of a gift she had just then given him, to bestow on the person he most loved as much wit as he pleased.

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**Who acts:** advantage, birth, son · **What happens:** add, be, give, bestow, love · **To what, where:** power, gift, son, person

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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 (advantage, birth, son), 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:pg29021:12:34
# text = She even added, that it would be in his power, by virtue of a gift she had just then given him, to bestow on the person he most loved as much wit as he pleased.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
32	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | advantage |  |  |  |  | by virtue of a gift | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | birth |  |  | son's power |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect | advantage | a gift *not said here* | son |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **bestow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on the person | tree rules |
| 5 | **love** | participle | son | the person *not said here* |  |  |  | as much wit | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |

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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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