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title: Some affirm that it was not the enchantments of the Fairy which work… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Some affirm that it was not the enchantments of the Fairy which worked this change, but that love alone caused the metamorphosis. Who acts: Some, Tuft, Fairy, love. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 7

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Some affirm that it was not the enchantments of the Fairy which worked this change, but that love alone caused the metamorphosis.

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**Who acts:** Some, Tuft, Fairy, love · **What happens:** affirm, not be, work, cause · **To what, where:** enchantments, change, metamorphosis

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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 (Some, Tuft, Fairy, love), 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:pg29021:14:7
# text = Some affirm that it was not the enchantments of the Fairy which worked this change, but that love alone caused the metamorphosis.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	affirm	affirm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	metamorphosis	metamorphosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affirm** | present | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | Tuft | the enchantments |  |  |  | of the Fairy | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | past | the Fairy | this change |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent change=Material |
| 4 | **cause** | past | that love | the metamorphosis |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition metamorphosis=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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