--- title: "I had far rather," cried the Princess, "be as ugly as you are, and… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "I had far rather," cried the Princess, "be as ugly as you are, and have wit, than have the beauty I possess, and be so stupid as I am." Who acts: Princess, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:12:57 # text = "I had far rather," cried the Princess, "be as ugly as you are, and have wit, than have the beauty I possess, and be so stupid as I am." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 rather rather ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 wit wit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 than than SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 possess possess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the Princess *= princess* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | wit | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the beauty | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient | | 7 | **possess** *in a quote* | present | the Princess *= princess* | the beauty *not said here* | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beauty=Theme | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | as the Princess *= princess*; stupid *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/58/) - ↑ back to [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/)