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title: He was the cause of enjoyment to countless of his fellows, and his s… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He was the cause of enjoyment to countless of his fellows, and his stories still promise enjoyment to countless others to come. Who acts: man, stories. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 102

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He was the cause of enjoyment to countless of his fellows, and his stories still promise enjoyment to countless others to come.

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**Who acts:** man, stories · **What happens:** be, promise, come · **To what, where:** cause, enjoyment, countless others

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stories), 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:pg29021:6:102
# text = He was the cause of enjoyment to countless of his fellows, and his stories still promise enjoyment to countless others to come.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	countless	countless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | man | the cause |  |  |  | of enjoyment to countless of man's fellows | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | man's stories | enjoyment |  |  | still | to countless others *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent enjoyment=Theme to other=Goal |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | man's stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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