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title: "THE PRINCE BELIEVED HE HAD GIVEN HER MORE WITH THAN HE HAD RESERVED… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "THE PRINCE BELIEVED HE HAD GIVEN HER MORE WITH THAN HE HAD RESERVED FOR HIMSELF" 99 Who acts: PRINCE. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, sentence 3

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"THE PRINCE BELIEVED HE HAD GIVEN HER MORE WITH THAN HE HAD RESERVED FOR HIMSELF" 99

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**Who acts:** PRINCE · **What happens:** believe, give, reserve · **To what, where:** PRINCE, 99 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PRINCE), 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:pg29021:5:3
# text = "THE PRINCE BELIEVED HE HAD GIVEN HER MORE WITH THAN HE HAD RESERVED FOR HIMSELF" 99
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	PRINCE	PRINCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	BELIEVED	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	HE	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	HAD	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	GIVEN	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
8	HER	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	MORE	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
10	WITH	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	THAN	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	HE	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	HAD	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	RESERVED	reserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	FOR	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	HIMSELF	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** *in a quote* | past | the PRINCE |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | PRINCE |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme |
| 3 | **reserve** *in a quote* | past · perfect | PRINCE | 99 |  |  |  | for PRINCE | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for himself=Beneficiary |

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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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