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title: THE PRINCE ENQUIRES OF THE AGED COUNTRYMAN _facing_ 54 — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: THE PRINCE ENQUIRES OF THE AGED COUNTRYMAN _facing_ 54 Who acts: PRINCE. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36, sentence 3

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THE PRINCE ENQUIRES OF THE AGED COUNTRYMAN \_facing\_ 54

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**Who acts:** PRINCE · **What happens:** enquire, face · **To what, where:** 54

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PRINCE), 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:pg29021:4:3
# text = THE PRINCE ENQUIRES OF THE AGED COUNTRYMAN _facing_ 54
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PRINCE	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ENQUIRES	enquire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	AGED	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	COUNTRYMAN	COUNTRYMAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
11	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **enquire** *speech: other* | present | the PRINCE |  |  |  |  | of the AGED COUNTRYMAN | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of countryman=Recipient |
| 2 | **face** | gerund | the PRINCE *not said here* | 54 |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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