--- title: For the State needed Princes for its peace and prosperity, and thoug… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: For the State needed Princes for its peace and prosperity, and though, in truth, the Princess, his daughter, had all the qualities requisite for making a great Queen, yet of necessity she must choose an alien for her husband, and then the stranger would take her away with him. Who acts: qualities re --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/55/) [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/) / 55 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 55 For the State needed Princes for its peace and prosperity, and though, in truth, the Princess, his daughter, had all the qualities requisite for making a great Queen, yet of necessity she must choose an alien for her husband, and then the stranger would take her away with him. **Who acts:** qualities requisite, Queen, stranger, beauty · **What happens:** need, have, make, choose, take away, pacify · **To what, where:** Princes, qualities requisite, truth, great Queen, alien, Queen 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 (qualities requisite, Queen, stranger, beauty), 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:pg29021:15:55 # text = For the State needed Princes for its peace and prosperity, and though, in truth, the Princess, his daughter, had all the qualities requisite for making a great Queen, yet of necessity she must choose an alien for her husband, and then the stranger would take her away with him. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 State State PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 prosperity prosperity NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 13 though though ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 28 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 qualities quality NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 compound _ _ 28 requisite requisite NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 necessity necessity NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 alien alien NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 48 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 52 advmod _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 51 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 53 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 away away ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 55 with with ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | past | | Princes | | | | for the State; for beauty's peace and prosperity | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | | all qualities requisite | | truth | | though *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent requisite=Patient | | 3 | **make** | gerund | all qualities requisite *not said here* | a great Queen | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset queen=Product | | 4 | **choose** | must | Queen | a alien | | | | of necessity; for Queen's husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent alien=Theme for husband=Beneficiary | | 5 | **take away** | would | the stranger | Queen | | | then | with King; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **pacify** | | beauty | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/56/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)