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title: _The stories soon crossed the Channel; and a translation "by Mr Samb… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _The stories soon crossed the Channel; and a translation "by Mr Samber, printed for J. Pote" was advertised in the "Monthly Chronicle" of 1729. " Who acts: stories, Mr. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with its depe
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 126

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\_The stories soon crossed the Channel; and a translation "by Mr Samber, printed for J. Pote" was advertised in the "Monthly Chronicle" of 1729. "

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**Who acts:** stories, Mr · **What happens:** cross, print, advertise, translate · **To what, where:** Channel, Mr, Monthly Chronicle

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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 (stories, Mr), 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:pg29021:6:126
# text = _The stories soon crossed the Channel; and a translation "by Mr Samber, printed for J. Pote" was advertised in the "Monthly Chronicle" of 1729. "
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Channel	Channel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	Samber	Samber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Pote	Pote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	advertised	advertise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Monthly	Monthly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Chronicle	Chronicle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1729	1729	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | the stories | the Channel |  |  |  | a translation by Mr *obl*; soon *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Patient |
| 2 | **print** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **advertise** | past · passive |  | Mr *not said here* |  | the Monthly Chronicle of 1729 |  | for J. Pote | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S» |
| 4 | **translate** |  | Mr |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: by=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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