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title: He can never have been a model schoolboy, though he was always first… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He can never have been a model schoolboy, though he was always first in his class, and he ended his school career prematurely by quarrelling with his master and bidding him a formal farewell. Who acts: father. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the P
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 13

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He can never have been a model schoolboy, though he was always first in his class, and he ended his school career prematurely by quarrelling with his master and bidding him a formal farewell.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** not be, be, end, quarrell, bid · **To what, where:** model schoolboy, class, school career, father

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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 (father), 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:pg29021:6:13
# text = He can never have been a model schoolboy, though he was always first in his class, and he ended his school career prematurely by quarrelling with his master and bidding him a formal farewell.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	schoolboy	schoolboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	prematurely	prematurely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | can · perfect | father | a model schoolboy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | father |  |  | father's class |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **end** | past | father | father's school career |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector career=Eventuality |
| 4 | **quarrell** | gerund | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with father's master; prematurely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bid** | gerund | father *not said here* | father |  |  |  |  | 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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