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title: The King, who had caused a sumptuous banquet to be prepared, was inc… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The King, who had caused a sumptuous banquet to be prepared, was inconsolable. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 98

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The King, who had caused a sumptuous banquet to be prepared, was inconsolable.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** cause, be · **To what, where:** sumptuous banquet

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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:pg29021:15:98
# text = The King, who had caused a sumptuous banquet to be prepared, was inconsolable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sumptuous	sumptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	inconsolable	inconsolable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past · perfect | the King | a sumptuous banquet |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition banquet=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | prepared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | inconsolable *property* | 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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