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title: However, there came one so powerful, rich, witty and handsome, that… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: However, there came one so powerful, rich, witty and handsome, that she could not help having a good inclination for him. Who acts: noise. 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 8

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However, there came one so powerful, rich, witty and handsome, that she could not help having a good inclination for him.

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**Who acts:** noise · **What happens:** come, not help, have · **To what, where:** good inclination

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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 (noise), 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:pg29021:13:8
# text = However, there came one so powerful, rich, witty and handsome, that she could not help having a good inclination for him.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	witty	witty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	inclination	inclination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there |  | however *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **help** | could | noise |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | gerund | noise *not said here* | a good inclination |  |  |  | for King | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inclination=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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