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title: To this great desire all else must yield, and Fanny would rather be… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: To this great desire all else must yield, and Fanny would rather be fair in drugget than be a Queen with an ugly face. Who acts: Fanny. 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 25

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To this great desire all else must yield, and Fanny would rather be fair in drugget than be a Queen with an ugly face.

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**Who acts:** Fanny · **What happens:** yield, be · **To what, where:** drugget

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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), 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:pg29021:15:25
# text = To this great desire all else must yield, and Fanny would rather be fair in drugget than be a Queen with an ugly face.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	yield	yield	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	Fanny	Fanny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	drugget	drugget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yield** | must |  |  |  |  |  | to this great desire; all *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to desire=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | would | Fanny |  |  | drugget |  | with a ugly face; fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than a Queen | 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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