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title: He sent out more than a hundred gendarmes, and more than a thousand… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He sent out more than a hundred gendarmes, and more than a thousand musketeers in quest of her; but the Lilac-fairy made her invisible to the cleverest seekers, and thus she escaped their vigilance. Who acts: King, Lilac fairy, Princess. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 99

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He sent out more than a hundred gendarmes, and more than a thousand musketeers in quest of her; but the Lilac-fairy made her invisible to the cleverest seekers, and thus she escaped their vigilance.

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**Who acts:** King, Lilac fairy, Princess · **What happens:** send out, make, escape, quest · **To what, where:** hundred gendarmes, Princess, vigilance

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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, Lilac fairy, Princess), 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:pg29021:15:99
# text = He sent out more than a hundred gendarmes, and more than a thousand musketeers in quest of her; but the Lilac-fairy made her invisible to the cleverest seekers, and thus she escaped their vigilance.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	gendarmes	gendarme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	musketeers	musketeer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Lilac	Lilac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	cleverest	clever	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	seekers	seeker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	vigilance	vigilance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | past | King | hundred gendarmes and thousand musketeers in quest of Princess |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gendarme=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Lilac fairy | Princess |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product |
| 3 | **escape** | past | Princess | Fairies's vigilance |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vigilance=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **quest** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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