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title: Selected by L. D'O. — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Selected by L. D'O. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, The Year's At the Spring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, The Year's At the Spring, sentence 2

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Selected by L. D'O.

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**What happens:** select

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, The Year's At the Spring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg29021:16:2
# text = Selected by L. D'O.
1	Selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	_
4	D'O	D'O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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