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title: Long before the seventeenth century the word _vair_ had passed out o… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Long before the seventeenth century the word _vair_ had passed out of use, except as a heraldic term, and had ceased to convey any meaning to the people. 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 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 68

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Long before the seventeenth century the word \_vair\_ had passed out of use, except as a heraldic term, and had ceased to convey any meaning to the people.

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**What happens:** pass out, cease, convey · **To what, where:** vair, use, meaning, people

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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: 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:pg29021:11:68
# text = Long before the seventeenth century the word _vair_ had passed out of use, except as a heraldic term, and had ceased to convey any meaning to the people.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	vair	vair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	appos	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	except	except	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	heraldic	heraldic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass out** | past · perfect · passive |  | vair |  | use |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cease** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **convey** | to-infinitive |  | any meaning | the people |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic to people=Recipient |

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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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