--- title: So, having now but one wish left, he had all but resolved to make go… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: So, having now but one wish left, he had all but resolved to make good use of it without further delay, and, before any other mischance could befall, to wish himself a kingdom of his own. Who acts: wish, one wish, other mischance. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/18/) [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/) / [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/) / 18 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 18 So, having now but one wish left, he had all but resolved to make good use of it without further delay, and, before any other mischance could befall, to wish himself a kingdom of his own. **Who acts:** wish, one wish, other mischance · **What happens:** have, leave, resolve, make, befall, wish · **To what, where:** good use, kingdom, mischance, beauty This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wish, one wish, other mischance), 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:pg29021:15:18 # text = So, having now but one wish left, he had all but resolved to make good use of it without further delay, and, before any other mischance could befall, to wish himself a kingdom of his own. 1 So so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 all all ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 without without ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 mischance mischance NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 befall befall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 36 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 iobj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | gerund | wish *not said here* | | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leave** | participle | one wish | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | wish | | | | | all *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **resolve** | past | wish *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | wish *not said here* | good use of beauty | | | | without further delay | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | | 6 | **befall** | could | any other mischance | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **wish** | to-infinitive | any other mischance *not said here* | a kingdom of mischance's own | mischance | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **use** | | | beauty | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/19/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)