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title: He was thankful enough to use his remaining wish to a more humble pu… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He was thankful enough to use his remaining wish to a more humble purpose, and forthwith relieved his wife of her encumbrance. Who acts: woodcutter. 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 27

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He was thankful enough to use his remaining wish to a more humble purpose, and forthwith relieved his wife of her encumbrance.

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**Who acts:** woodcutter · **What happens:** be, use, relieve, wish · **To what, where:** remaining wish, wife

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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 (woodcutter), 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:pg29021:15:27
# text = He was thankful enough to use his remaining wish to a more humble purpose, and forthwith relieved his wife of her encumbrance.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	relieved	relieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	encumbrance	encumbrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | woodcutter |  |  |  |  | enough, thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | woodcutter *not said here* | woodcutter's remaining wish |  |  |  | to a humble purpose | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 3 | **relieve** | past |  | woodcutter's wife of wife's encumbrance |  |  |  | forthwith *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wish** |  | woodcutter |  |  |  |  |  | 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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