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title: Thus the _pantoufles de vair_ of the fairy tale became, in the oral… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the _pantoufles de vair_ of the fairy tale became, in the oral tradition, the homonymous _pantoufles de verre_, or glass slippers, a delightful improvement on the earlier version.] Who acts: _ pantoufles. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 69

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Thus the \_pantoufles de vair\_ of the fairy tale became, in the oral tradition, the homonymous \_pantoufles de verre\_, or glass slippers, a delightful improvement on the earlier version.\]

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**Who acts:** \_ pantoufles · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** oral tradition

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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 (\_ pantoufles), 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:pg29021:11:69
# text = Thus the _pantoufles de vair_ of the fairy tale became, in the oral tradition, the homonymous _pantoufles de verre_, or glass slippers, a delightful improvement on the earlier version.]
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pantoufles	pantoufle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vair	vair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	homonymous	homonymous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	pantoufles	pantoufle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	verre	verre	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	improvement	improvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the \_ pantoufles de vair | the oral tradition and a delightful improvement on the earlier version |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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