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title: He deferred, however, to universal usage when he entitled his volume… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He deferred, however, to universal usage when he entitled his volume "Les Contes en prose de Charles Perrault." Who acts: boy. 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 pragmatics of every cl
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 119

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He deferred, however, to universal usage when he entitled his volume "Les Contes en prose de Charles Perrault."

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** defer, entitle · **To what, where:** volume

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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 (boy), 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:pg29021:6:119
# text = He deferred, however, to universal usage when he entitled his volume "Les Contes en prose de Charles Perrault."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	deferred	defer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	usage	usage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Les	Les	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	Contes	Contes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
19	de	de	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defer** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | to universal usage; however *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to usage=Pivot |
| 2 | **entitle** | past | boy | boy's volume |  |  |  |  | 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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