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title: He was more at a loss than she, and we need not wonder at it; she ha… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He was more at a loss than she, and we need not wonder at it; she had time to think on what to say to him; for it is very probable (though history mentions nothing of it) that the good Fairy, during so long a sleep, had entertained her with pleasant dreams. Who acts: Prince, we, Princess, discourse.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3, sentence 23

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He was more at a loss than she, and we need not wonder at it; she had time to think on what to say to him; for it is very probable (though history mentions nothing of it) that the good Fairy, during so long a sleep, had entertained her with pleasant dreams.

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**Who acts:** Prince, we, Princess, discourse, history · **What happens:** be, not wonder, have, think, say, mention · **To what, where:** loss, Prince, nothing, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, we, Princess, discourse), 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:pg29021:9:23
# text = He was more at a loss than she, and we need not wonder at it; she had time to think on what to say to him; for it is very probable (though history mentions nothing of it) that the good Fairy, during so long a sleep, had entertained her with pleasant dreams.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	mentions	mention	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	38	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	during	during	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	so	so	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	52	conj	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Prince |  |  | a loss |  | than Princess; more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | we |  |  | loss |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | past | Princess |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | present | discourse |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | history | nothing |  |  | during a long sleep |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 8 | **entertain** | past · perfect | history *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  | with pleasant dreams | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |

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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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