--- title: His good fortune was made even greater by the choice he had made for… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: His good fortune was made even greater by the choice he had made for wife of a Princess as beautiful as she was virtuous, with whom he lived in perfect happiness. Who acts: choice, King, Princess. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/35/) [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/) / 35 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 35 His good fortune was made even greater by the choice he had made for wife of a Princess as beautiful as she was virtuous, with whom he lived in perfect happiness. **Who acts:** choice, King, Princess · **What happens:** make, be, live · **To what, where:** good fortune, choice, perfect happiness 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 (choice, King, Princess), 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:pg29021:15:35 # text = His good fortune was made even greater by the choice he had made for wife of a Princess as beautiful as she was virtuous, with whom he lived in perfect happiness. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 even even ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 virtuous virtuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 obl _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | the choice | King's good fortune | | | | great *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 2 | **make** | past · perfect | King | the choice *not said here* | | | | for wife of a Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent choice=Product for wife=Beneficiary | | 3 | **is** | past | Princess | | | | | virtuous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | past | King | | | perfect happiness | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in happiness=Location | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/36/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)