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title: _No English translation of Perrault's fairy tales has attained unque… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _No English translation of Perrault's fairy tales has attained unquestioned literary pre-eminence. Who acts: fairy tales, Perrault. 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 eve
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 131

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\_No English translation of Perrault's fairy tales has attained unquestioned literary pre-eminence.

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**Who acts:** fairy tales, Perrault · **What happens:** attain, translate, tell · **To what, where:** English translation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fairy tales, Perrault), 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:pg29021:6:131
# text = _No English translation of Perrault's fairy tales has attained unquestioned literary pre-eminence.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	attained	attain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	unquestioned	unquestioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pre-eminence	pre-eminence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attain** | present · perfect · passive |  | no English translation of Perrault's fairy tales |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary pre-eminence=Theme |
| 2 | **translate** |  | Perrault's fairy tales |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **tell** |  | Perrault |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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