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title: His impatience to marry her, indeed, was so great that he could scar… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: His impatience to marry her, indeed, was so great that he could scarcely allow time for the necessary preparations for the grand wedding which was their due. Who acts: impatience, King, grand wedding. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its de
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 193

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His impatience to marry her, indeed, was so great that he could scarcely allow time for the necessary preparations for the grand wedding which was their due.

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**Who acts:** impatience, King, grand wedding · **What happens:** marry, be, allow · **To what, where:** Princess

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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 (impatience, King, grand wedding), 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:pg29021:15:193
# text = His impatience to marry her, indeed, was so great that he could scarcely allow time for the necessary preparations for the grand wedding which was their due.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | to-infinitive | King's impatience *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | King's impatience |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **allow** | could | King |  |  |  | time | for the necessary preparations for the grand wedding *goal*; scarcely *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for preparation=Goal |
| 4 | **is** | past | the grand wedding |  |  |  |  | due *property* | tree rules |

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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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