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title: But let us come to fact, if you please. — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: But let us come to fact, if you please. Who acts: you, us. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 33

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But let us come to fact, if you please.

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** let, come · **To what, where:** us, fact

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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, us), 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:pg29021:13:33
# text = But let us come to fact, if you please.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	parataxis	_	_
10	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | fact |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fact=Initial\_Location |

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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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