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title: _Perrault was not so shy in admitting the authorship of his three ve… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _Perrault was not so shy in admitting the authorship of his three verse stories--"Griselidis," "Les Souhaits Ridicules," and "Peau d'Asne." Who acts: _. 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 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 111

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\_Perrault was not so shy in admitting the authorship of his three verse stories--"Griselidis," "Les Souhaits Ridicules," and "Peau d'Asne."

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** not be, admit · **To what, where:** authorship

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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 (\_), 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:pg29021:6:111
# text = _Perrault was not so shy in admitting the authorship of his three verse stories--"Griselidis," "Les Souhaits Ridicules," and "Peau d'Asne."
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	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	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	admitting	admit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	authorship	authorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Griselidis	Griselidis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Les	Les	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Souhaits	Souhaits	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Ridicules	Ridicules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Peau	Peau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	d'Asne	d'asne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | \_ |  |  |  |  | Souhaits Ridicules and Peau d'Asne *obl*; shy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | gerund | \_ *not said here* | the authorship of \_'s three verse stories  Griselidis |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authorship=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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