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title: In his delusions he imagined himself once more a young man; he thoug… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In his delusions he imagined himself once more a young man; he thought the Princess his daughter, in her youth and beauty, was his Queen as he had known her in the days of their courtship, and living thus in the past he urged the unhappy girl to speedily become his bride. Who acts: King. A sentence 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 60

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In his delusions he imagined himself once more a young man; he thought the Princess his daughter, in her youth and beauty, was his Queen as he had known her in the days of their courtship, and living thus in the past he urged the unhappy girl to speedily become his bride.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** imagine, think, be, know, live, urge · **To what, where:** King, delusions, Princess, Queen, past, unhappy girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg29021:15:60
# text = In his delusions he imagined himself once more a young man; he thought the Princess his daughter, in her youth and beauty, was his Queen as he had known her in the days of their courtship, and living thus in the past he urged the unhappy girl to speedily become his bride.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	delusions	delusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	courtship	courtship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
42	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	csubj	_	_
43	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	ccomp	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | past | King | King |  | King's delusions |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | King | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | King's Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | King |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  | the past |  | thus *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in past=Location |
| 6 | **urge** | past | King | the unhappy girl |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **become** | infinitive | King *not said here* | King's bride |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **delude** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom delusion «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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