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title: The Lilac-fairy, who, as was right, presided over all, had recommend… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lilac-fairy, who, as was right, presided over all, had recommended this course to prevent trouble. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 196

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The Lilac-fairy, who, as was right, presided over all, had recommended this course to prevent trouble.

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**What happens:** be, preside, recommend, prevent · **To what, where:** Lilac fairy, all, trouble

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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: 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:pg29021:15:196
# text = The Lilac-fairy, who, as was right, presided over all, had recommended this course to prevent trouble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Lilac	lilac	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	presided	preside	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **preside** | participle · passive |  | the Lilac fairy |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recommend** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Lilac fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trouble=Theme |

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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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