--- title: As the more wit we have, the greater difficulty we find to make a fi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: As the more wit we have, the greater difficulty we find to make a firm resolution upon such affairs, this made her desire her father, after having thanked him, to give her time to consider of it. Who acts: we, greater difficulty, this, noise. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Ch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/13/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Had Reserved For Himself"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/13/) / 10 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 10 As the more wit we have, the greater difficulty we find to make a firm resolution upon such affairs, this made her desire her father, after having thanked him, to give her time to consider of it. **Who acts:** we, greater difficulty, this, noise · **What happens:** have, find, make, desire, thank, give · **To what, where:** more wit, greater difficulty, firm resolution, noise, father This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, greater difficulty, this, noise), 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:pg29021:13:10 # text = As the more wit we have, the greater difficulty we find to make a firm resolution upon such affairs, this made her desire her father, after having thanked him, to give her time to consider of it. 1 As as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 wit wit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 difficulty difficulty NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 resolution resolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 upon upon ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 affairs affair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 23 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 desire desire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 after after SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 aux _ _ 31 thanked thank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 parataxis _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 consider consider VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | we | the more wit and the greater difficulty *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | | 2 | **find** | present | we | the greater difficulty *not said here* | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent difficulty=Attribute clause=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the greater difficulty *not said here* | a firm resolution | | | | upon such affairs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resolution=Product | | 4 | **make** | past | this | noise | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **desire** | infinitive | noise *not said here* | noise's father | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot father=Theme | | 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund · perfect | | | father | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 7 | **give** | to-infinitive | noise *not said here* | | | | time | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **consider** | to-infinitive | noise *not said here* | | | | | of resolution | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/13/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/13/11/) - ↑ back to [Had Reserved For Himself"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/13/)