--- title: "If it be so," said the Princess, "I wish, with all my heart, that y… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "If it be so," said the Princess, "I wish, with all my heart, that you may be the most lovable Prince in the world, and I bestow it on you, as much as I am able." Who acts: doubt, Princess, you. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/) / 5 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 5 "If it be so," said the Princess, "I wish, with all my heart, that you may be the most lovable Prince in the world, and I bestow it on you, as much as I am able." **Who acts:** doubt, Princess, you · **What happens:** be, say, wish, bestow · **To what, where:** world, lovable Prince, doubt · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (doubt, Princess, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:14:5 # text = "If it be so," said the Princess, "I wish, with all my heart, that you may be the most lovable Prince in the world, and I bestow it on you, as much as I am able." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 27 advmod _ _ 27 lovable lovable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 bestow bestow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 as as ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | doubt | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | the Princess *= princess* | | | the world | | with my heart | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | may | you | the lovable Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bestow** *in a quote* | present | the Princess *= princess* | doubt | | | | on you | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Princess *= princess* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/6/) - ↑ back to [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/)