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title: The King governed himself by her advice, and would even sometimes ho… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The King governed himself by her advice, and would even sometimes hold a council in her apartment. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 6

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The King governed himself by her advice, and would even sometimes hold a council in her apartment.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** govern, hold · **To what, where:** King, council, apartment

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg29021:13:6
# text = The King governed himself by her advice, and would even sometimes hold a council in her apartment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	governed	govern	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **govern** | past | the King | King |  |  |  | by Princess's advice | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | would |  | a council |  | Princess's apartment |  | sometimes *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent council=Theme in apartment=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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