--- title: In this dilemma he resolved to put the case to Fanny, and to leave h… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: In this dilemma he resolved to put the case to Fanny, and to leave her to decide whether she would rather be a Queen, with this most horrible appendage marring her good looks, or remain a peasant wife, but with her shapely nose relieved of this untoward addition. Who acts: mischance, horrible append --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/22/) [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/) / 22 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 22 In this dilemma he resolved to put the case to Fanny, and to leave her to decide whether she would rather be a Queen, with this most horrible appendage marring her good looks, or remain a peasant wife, but with her shapely nose relieved of this untoward addition. **Who acts:** mischance, horrible appendage · **What happens:** resolve, put, leave, decide, be, mar · **To what, where:** dilemma, case, Fanny, Queen, good looks, peasant wife 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 (mischance, horrible appendage), 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:pg29021:15:22 # text = In this dilemma he resolved to put the case to Fanny, and to leave her to decide whether she would rather be a Queen, with this most horrible appendage marring her good looks, or remain a peasant wife, but with her shapely nose relieved of this untoward addition. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 dilemma dilemma NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Fanny Fanny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 19 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 rather rather ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 29 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 30 advmod _ _ 30 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 appendage appendage NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 32 marring mar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 peasant peasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 shapely shapely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 48 relieved relieve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 52 det _ _ 51 untoward untoward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 addition addition NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **resolve** | past | mischance | | | this dilemma | | | tree rules | | 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | mischance *not said here* | the case | Fanny | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent case=Goal | | 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | mischance *not said here* | Fanny | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **decide** | to-infinitive | mischance *not said here* | | | | | with this horrible appendage | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with appendage=Co-Agent | | 5 | **is a** | infinitive | | a Queen | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mar** | gerund | this horrible appendage *not said here* | Fanny's good looks | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **remain** | infinitive | mischance *not said here* | a peasant wife | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wife=Attribute | | 8 | **relieve** | participle | mischance *not said here* | | | | | with Fanny's shapely nose; of this untoward addition | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer of addition=Theme | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/23/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)