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title: If you sincerely thought to make me your wife, you have been greatly… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 29

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If you sincerely thought to make me your wife, you have been greatly in the wrong to deprive me of my dull simplicity, and make me see things much more clearly than I did."

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**Who acts:** you, me, I · **What happens:** think, make, be, deprive, see, do · **To what, where:** wife, me, wrong, things

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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 (you, me, I), 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:pg29021:13:29
# text = If you sincerely thought to make me your wife, you have been greatly in the wrong to deprive me of my dull simplicity, and make me see things much more clearly than I did."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	sincerely	sincerely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	deprive	deprive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
34	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  |  |  | sincerely *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your wife | me |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary wife=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | you |  |  | the wrong |  | greatly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **deprive** | to-infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | of my dull simplicity | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Source of simplicity=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | me *not said here* | things |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 7 | **do** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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