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title: What made her forget this was that, when she made this promise, she… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: What made her forget this was that, when she made this promise, she was very silly, and having obtained that vast stock of wit which the Prince had bestowed on her, she had intirely forgot her stupidity. Who acts: Princess, Prince. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perra
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 20

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What made her forget this was that, when she made this promise, she was very silly, and having obtained that vast stock of wit which the Prince had bestowed on her, she had intirely forgot her stupidity.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Prince · **What happens:** make, forget, be, obtain, bestow, have · **To what, where:** Princess, this, vast stock, wit, stupidity

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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, Prince), 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:pg29021:13:20
# text = What made her forget this was that, when she made this promise, she was very silly, and having obtained that vast stock of wit which the Prince had bestowed on her, she had intirely forgot her stupidity.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux	_	_
22	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
38	intirely	intirely	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | Princess *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **obtain** | gerund · perfect | Princess *not said here* | vast stock of wit |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **bestow** | past · perfect | the Prince | wit |  |  |  | on Princess | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **forget** | past | Princess *not said here* | Princess's stupidity |  |  |  | intirely *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **stock** |  |  | wit |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=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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