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title: Magnificence, good taste, and abundance reigned in the palace; there… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Magnificence, good taste, and abundance reigned in the palace; there were wise and clever ministers, virtuous and devoted courtiers, faithful and diligent servants. Who acts: Magnificence. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tre
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 37

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Magnificence, good taste, and abundance reigned in the palace; there were wise and clever ministers, virtuous and devoted courtiers, faithful and diligent servants.

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**Who acts:** Magnificence · **What happens:** reign, be · **To what, where:** abundance, palace, wise ministers

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magnificence), 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:pg29021:15:37
# text = Magnificence, good taste, and abundance reigned in the palace; there were wise and clever ministers, virtuous and devoted courtiers, faithful and diligent servants.
1	Magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	diligent	diligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | participle |  | abundance *not said here* |  | the palace |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Magnificence and good taste and abundance | wise ministers and virtuous courtiers and faithful servants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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