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title: "God grant it," replied the Queen; "but is there no way to make the… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "God grant it," replied the Queen; "but is there no way to make the eldest, who is so pretty, have some little wit?" Who acts: God, Queen, way. 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 eve
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 43

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"God grant it," replied the Queen; "but is there no way to make the eldest, who is so pretty, have some little wit?"

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**Who acts:** God, Queen, way · **What happens:** grant, reply, be, make, have · **To what, where:** portion, way, eldest, little wit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (God, Queen, way), 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:pg29021:12:43
# text = "God grant it," replied the Queen; "but is there no way to make the eldest, who is so pretty, have some little wit?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	csubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | portion |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | no way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the eldest |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eld=Product |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | no way |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | some little wit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient |

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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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