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title: If it be so," said Riquet with the Tuft, "I am like to be happy, sin… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: If it be so," said Riquet with the Tuft, "I am like to be happy, since it is in your power to make me the most lovable of men." Who acts: it, Riquet, I, Tuft. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 2

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If it be so," said Riquet with the Tuft, "I am like to be happy, since it is in your power to make me the most lovable of men."

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**Who acts:** it, Riquet, I, Tuft · **What happens:** be, say, like, make · **To what, where:** power, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (it, Riquet, I, Tuft), 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:pg29021:14:2
# text = If it be so," said Riquet with the Tuft, "I am like to be happy, since it is in your power to make me the most lovable of men."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Riquet	Riquet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
32	lovable	lovable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | it |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Riquet |  |  |  |  | with the Tuft | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | Tuft |  |  | your power |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  | lovable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |

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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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