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title: The Queen, prudent as she was, could not help reproaching her severa… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen, prudent as she was, could not help reproaching her several times, which had like to have made this poor Princess die for grief. Who acts: queen, several times, this. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], with its dependen
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 49

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The Queen, prudent as she was, could not help reproaching her several times, which had like to have made this poor Princess die for grief.

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**Who acts:** queen, several times, this · **What happens:** be, not help, reproach, have, make, die

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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 (queen, several times, this), 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:pg29021:12:49
# text = The Queen, prudent as she was, could not help reproaching her several times, which had like to have made this poor Princess die for grief.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	reproaching	reproach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	xcomp	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	die	die	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **help** | could | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **reproach** *not said to happen* | gerund | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | queen's several times |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive · perfect | queen's several times *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **die** |  | this |  |  |  |  | for grief | 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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