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title: So the publishers of the present book have thought it best to use Sa… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: So the publishers of the present book have thought it best to use Samber's translation, which has a special interest of its own in being almost contemporary with the original. Who acts: translation, Samber. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Prin
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 132

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So the publishers of the present book have thought it best to use Samber's translation, which has a special interest of its own in being almost contemporary with the original.

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**Who acts:** translation, Samber · **What happens:** think, use, have, be, translate · **To what, where:** publishers, translation, special interest · **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 (translation, 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:pg29021:6:132
# text = So the publishers of the present book have thought it best to use Samber's translation, which has a special interest of its own in being almost contemporary with the original.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	publishers	publisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	Samber	Samber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
28	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | the publishers of the present book |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive |  | Samber's translation |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent translation=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | Samber's translation | a special interest of translation's own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the original; almost, contemporary *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **translate** |  | Samber |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «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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