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title: Mr Samber" was presumably one Robert Samber of New Inn, who translat… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 127

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Mr Samber" was presumably one Robert Samber of New Inn, who translated other tales from the French, for Edmond Curl the bookseller, about this time.

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**Who acts:** Mr, Robert Samber · **What happens:** be, translate · **To what, where:** one, other tales, French

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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 (Mr, Robert Samber), 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:pg29021:6:127
# text = Mr Samber" was presumably one Robert Samber of New Inn, who translated other tales from the French, for Edmond Curl the bookseller, about this time.
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Samber	Samber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	presumably	presumably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Samber	Samber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Inn	Inn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	translated	translate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Edmond	Edmond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Curl	Curl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bookseller	bookseller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Mr | one |  |  |  | presumably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **translate** *in a quote* | past | Robert Samber of New Inn | other tales |  | the French |  | for Edmond Curl and this time | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent tale=Patient from french=Initial\_State |

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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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