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title: Now, it was not for a whim but for a good reason that the King had g… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, it was not for a whim but for a good reason that the King had given this donkey a particular and distinguished place. Who acts: donkey, King. 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 39

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Now, it was not for a whim but for a good reason that the King had given this donkey a particular and distinguished place.

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**Who acts:** donkey, King · **What happens:** not be, give · **To what, where:** particular place, donkey

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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 (donkey, King), 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:pg29021:15:39
# text = Now, it was not for a whim but for a good reason that the King had given this donkey a particular and distinguished place.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	whim	whim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	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 | **not** **is** | past | donkey |  |  |  | now | for a whim but a good reason | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect | the King | a particular place | this donkey |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Recipient place=Theme |

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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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