--- title: _Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, the fifth son of Pierre Perraul… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: _Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, the fifth son of Pierre Perrault, a prosperous parliamentary lawyer; and, at the age of nine, was sent to a day-school--the Collège de Beauvais. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/6/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / ["he Thought the Princess Was His Queen…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/6/) / 11 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 11 \_Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, the fifth son of Pierre Perrault, a prosperous parliamentary lawyer; and, at the age of nine, was sent to a day-school--the Collège de Beauvais. **What happens:** bear, send · **To what, where:** \_, Paris, Collège Beauvais, age 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:6:11 # text = _Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, the fifth son of Pierre Perrault, a prosperous parliamentary lawyer; and, at the age of nine, was sent to a day-school--the Collège de Beauvais. 1 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Perrault Perrault PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1628 1628 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Pierre Pierre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 Perrault Perrault PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 prosperous prosperous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 parliamentary parliamentary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 lawyer lawyer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 Collège Collège PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 40 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 flat _ _ 41 Beauvais Beauvais PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | past · passive | | \_ | | Paris | | in 1628 the fifth son of Pierre and a prosperous parliamentary lawyer | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **send** | past · passive | | the Collège Beauvais | | | at the age of nine | to a day school | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to school=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/6/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/6/12/) - ↑ back to ["he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/6/)