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title: The best of Perrault's critics, Paul de St Victor and Andrew Lang am… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The best of Perrault's critics, Paul de St Victor and Andrew Lang among others, see in the book a marvellous collaboration of crabbed age and youth. Who acts: crabbed age. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with its d
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 116

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The best of Perrault's critics, Paul de St Victor and Andrew Lang among others, see in the book a marvellous collaboration of crabbed age and youth.

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**Who acts:** crabbed age · **What happens:** see, crab, collaborate · **To what, where:** book

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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 (crabbed age), 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:pg29021:6:116
# text = The best of Perrault's critics, Paul de St Victor and Andrew Lang among others, see in the book a marvellous collaboration of crabbed age and youth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Victor	Victor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	list	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	collaboration	collaboration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	crabbed	crab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  | the book |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **crab** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **collaborate** |  | crabbed age and youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom collaboration «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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