--- title: The Princess had so little wit, and, at the same time, so great a lo… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess had so little wit, and, at the same time, so great a longing to have some, that she imagined the end of that year would never be; therefore she accepted the proposal which was made her. Who acts: Princess, longing, end. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/13/2/) [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/) / 2 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 2 The Princess had so little wit, and, at the same time, so great a longing to have some, that she imagined the end of that year would never be; therefore she accepted the proposal which was made her. **Who acts:** Princess, longing, end · **What happens:** have, imagine, not be, accept, make · **To what, where:** little wit, some, proposal 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 (Princess, longing, end), 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:pg29021:13:2 # text = The Princess had so little wit, and, at the same time, so great a longing to have some, that she imagined the end of that year would never be; therefore she accepted the proposal which was made her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wit wit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 longing longing NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 imagined imagine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 accepted accept VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 proposal proposal NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the Princess | little wit | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | some | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | | 3 | **imagine** | past | longing | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **be** | would | the end of that year | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **accept** | past | end | the proposal | | | | therefore *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past · passive | | the proposal | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Product | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/13/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/13/3/) - ↑ back to [Had Reserved For Himself"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/13/)