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title: Every few years a new and sumptuous edition appears in France. — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Every few years a new and sumptuous edition appears in France. Who acts: new edition. 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 123

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Every few years a new and sumptuous edition appears in France.

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**Who acts:** new edition · **What happens:** appear · **To what, where:** France

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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 (new edition), 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:pg29021:6:123
# text = Every few years a new and sumptuous edition appears in France.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sumptuous	sumptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | a new edition |  |  | France | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in france=Location |

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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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