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title: The first appeared, anonymously it is true, in 1691; but, when it ca… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 112

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The first appeared, anonymously it is true, in 1691; but, when it came to be reprinted with "Les Souhaits Ridicules" and "Peau d'Asne" in 1695, they were entrusted to the firm of Coignard and described as being by "Mr Perrault, de l'Academie Françoise."

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**Who acts:** first, authorship · **What happens:** appear, be, come, reprint, entrust, describe · **To what, where:** 1691, Ridicules, firm

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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 (first, authorship), 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:pg29021:6:112
# text = The first appeared, anonymously it is true, in 1691; but, when it came to be reprinted with "Les Souhaits Ridicules" and "Peau d'Asne" in 1695, they were entrusted to the firm of Coignard and described as being by "Mr Perrault, de l'Academie Françoise."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	anonymously	anonymously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1691	1691	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	reprinted	reprint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Les	Les	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	Souhaits	Souhaits	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Ridicules	Ridicules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	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	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1695	1695	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	entrusted	entrust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	firm	firm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Coignard	Coignard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	cop	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	54	compound	_	_
53	l'Academie	l'academie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	Françoise	françoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the first |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | authorship |  |  | 1691 |  | anonymously, true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | authorship |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reprint** | to-infinitive · passive | authorship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Les Souhaits Ridicules and Peau d'Asne in 1695 | tree rules |
| 5 | **entrust** | past · passive |  | Ridicules | the firm of Coignard |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to firm=Recipient |
| 6 | **describe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as Mr and de l'Academie Françoise | tree rules |

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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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