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title: Fanny's mind was soon made up: although she had dreamt of a crown an… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Fanny's mind was soon made up: although she had dreamt of a crown and sceptre, yet a woman's first wish is always to please. Who acts: Fanny, first wish, woman. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 24

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Fanny's mind was soon made up: although she had dreamt of a crown and sceptre, yet a woman's first wish is always to please.

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**Who acts:** Fanny, first wish, woman · **What happens:** make up, dreamt, be, mind, wish · **To what, where:** mind

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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 (Fanny, first wish, woman), 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:pg29021:15:24
# text = Fanny's mind was soon made up: although she had dreamt of a crown and sceptre, yet a woman's first wish is always to please.
1	Fanny	Fanny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past · passive |  | Fanny's mind |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 2 | **dreamt** | past · perfect | Fanny |  |  |  |  | of a crown and sceptre | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a woman's first wish |  |  |  |  | always, please *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mind** |  | Fanny |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **wish** |  | a woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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