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title: Once there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the pro… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Once there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen. Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 16

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Once there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen.

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** be, marry, see · **To what, where:** proudest haughty woman

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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:pg29021:11:16
# text = Once there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	proudest	proud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a gentleman |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | past | a gentleman |  |  |  |  | for gentleman's second wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | the proudest haughty woman |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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