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title: Seven or eight years after this, the Queen of a neighbouring kingdom… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven or eight years after this, the Queen of a neighbouring kingdom was delivered of two daughters at a birth. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 38

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Seven or eight years after this, the Queen of a neighbouring kingdom was delivered of two daughters at a birth.

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**What happens:** neighbour, deliver · **To what, where:** Queen, birth

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]. 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:pg29021:12:38
# text = Seven or eight years after this, the Queen of a neighbouring kingdom was delivered of two daughters at a birth.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deliver** | past · passive |  | the Queen of a neighbouring kingdom |  | a birth | year | of two daughters | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme of daughter=Initial\_Location |

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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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