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title: Perchance, the Queen, who did not lack self-esteem, exacted this oat… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Perchance, the Queen, who did not lack self-esteem, exacted this oath firmly believing that there was not her equal in the world, and so felt assured that the King would never marry again. Who acts: Perchance, King. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 48

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Perchance, the Queen, who did not lack self-esteem, exacted this oath firmly believing that there was not her equal in the world, and so felt assured that the King would never marry again.

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**Who acts:** Perchance, King · **What happens:** not lack, exact, believe, be, feel, assure · **To what, where:** self esteem, oath · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Perchance, 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:pg29021:15:48
# text = Perchance, the Queen, who did not lack self-esteem, exacted this oath firmly believing that there was not her equal in the world, and so felt assured that the King would never marry again.
1	Perchance	perchance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	lack	lack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	esteem	esteem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	exacted	exact	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
32	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lack** | past · do-support | Perchance | self esteem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exact** | past | Perchance | this oath |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 3 | **believe** | gerund | Perchance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | past | Perchance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **assure** | participle | Perchance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 7 | **not** **marry** | would | the King |  |  |  | again |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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