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title: I, who am sovereign lord of this world, promise to grant in full the… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: I, who am sovereign lord of this world, promise to grant in full the first three wishes which it will please thee to utter, whatever these may be. Who acts: I, first three wishes. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 182

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I, who am sovereign lord of this world, promise to grant in full the first three wishes which it will please thee to utter, whatever these may be.

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**Who acts:** I, first three wishes · **What happens:** be, promise, grant, please, utter · **To what, where:** sovereign lord, thee

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first three wishes), 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:pg29021:14:182
# text = I, who am sovereign lord of this world, promise to grant in full the first three wishes which it will please thee to utter, whatever these may be.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	sovereign	sovereign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	promise	promise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	acl:relcl	_	_
29	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | sovereign lord |  |  |  | of this world | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **grant** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **please** | future | the first three wishes | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the first three wishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** | may | the first three wishes |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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