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title: The same Fairy, who had assisted at the birth of little Riquet with… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The same Fairy, who had assisted at the birth of little Riquet with the Tuft, was here also; and, to moderate the Queen's gladness, she declared, that this little Princess should have no wit at all, but be as stupid as she was pretty. Who acts: same Fairy, queen, little Princess. A sentence of «The 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 40

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The same Fairy, who had assisted at the birth of little Riquet with the Tuft, was here also; and, to moderate the Queen's gladness, she declared, that this little Princess should have no wit at all, but be as stupid as she was pretty.

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**Who acts:** same Fairy, queen, little Princess · **What happens:** assist, be, moderate, declare, have · **To what, where:** birth, gladness, wit, all

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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 (same Fairy, queen, little Princess), 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:pg29021:12:40
# text = The same Fairy, who had assisted at the birth of little Riquet with the Tuft, was here also; and, to moderate the Queen's gladness, she declared, that this little Princess should have no wit at all, but be as stupid as she was pretty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	assisted	assist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	moderate	moderate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
40	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
41	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
47	as	as	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assist** | past · perfect | the same Fairy |  |  | the birth of little Riquet with the Tuft |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the same Fairy |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **moderate** | to-infinitive |  | the Queen's gladness |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gladness=Patient |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | should | this little Princess | no wit |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | 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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