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title: _"Les Contes du Temps Passé" had an immediate success. — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _"Les Contes du Temps Passé" had an immediate success. Who acts: Passé. 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 clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 121

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\_"Les Contes du Temps Passé" had an immediate success.

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**Who acts:** Passé · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** immediate success

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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 (Passé), 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:pg29021:6:121
# text = _"Les Contes du Temps Passé" had an immediate success.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Les	Les	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Contes	Conte	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
5	du	du	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Temps	temp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	Passé	Passé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Passé | a immediate success |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient |

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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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