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title: "THE MARQUIS GAVE HIS HAND TO THE PRINCESS, AND FOLLOWED THE KING, W… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "THE MARQUIS GAVE HIS HAND TO THE PRINCESS, AND FOLLOWED THE KING, WHO WENT UP FIRST" _facing_ 74 Who acts: MARQUIS, KING. 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
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36, sentence 6

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"THE MARQUIS GAVE HIS HAND TO THE PRINCESS, AND FOLLOWED THE KING, WHO WENT UP FIRST" \_facing\_ 74

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**Who acts:** MARQUIS, KING · **What happens:** give, follow, go up, face · **To what, where:** HAND, PRINCESS, 74

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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 (MARQUIS, 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:pg29021:4:6
# text = "THE MARQUIS GAVE HIS HAND TO THE PRINCESS, AND FOLLOWED THE KING, WHO WENT UP FIRST" _facing_ 74
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	MARQUIS	MARQUIS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	GAVE	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	HAND	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	PRINCESS	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	FOLLOWED	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	KING	KING	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	WENT	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	UP	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	FIRST	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
24	74	74	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | past | the MARQUIS | MARQUIS's HAND | the PRINCESS |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to princess=Recipient |
| 2 | **follow** *in a quote* | past | the MARQUIS *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go up** *in a quote* | past | the KING |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **face** | gerund | the KING *not said here* | 74 |  |  |  |  | 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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