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title: In order that the secret might be well kept, Perrault abandoned his… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In order that the secret might be well kept, Perrault abandoned his usual publisher, Coignard, and went to Barbin. Who acts: order, Perrault. 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 the pragmat
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 107

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In order that the secret might be well kept, Perrault abandoned his usual publisher, Coignard, and went to Barbin.

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**Who acts:** order, Perrault · **What happens:** keep, abandon, go · **To what, where:** secret, usual publisher, order, Barbin

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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 (order, Perrault), 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:pg29021:6:107
# text = In order that the secret might be well kept, Perrault abandoned his usual publisher, Coignard, and went to Barbin.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	publisher	publisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Coignard	Coignard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Barbin	Barbin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | might · passive | order *not said here* | the secret |  |  |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **abandon** | past | Perrault | man's usual publisher |  | order |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme publisher=Source |
| 3 | **go** | past | Perrault *not said here* |  |  | Barbin |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to barbin=Initial\_Location |

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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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