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title: _It is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to add anything about Mr Clarke'… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _It is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to add anything about Mr Clarke's illustrations. Who acts: credit, me, Mr Clarke. 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 every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 137

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\_It is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to add anything about Mr Clarke's illustrations.

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**Who acts:** credit, me, Mr Clarke · **What happens:** be, add, illustrate · **To what, where:** anything

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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 (credit, me, Mr Clarke), 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:pg29021:6:137
# text = _It is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to add anything about Mr Clarke's illustrations.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Clarke	Clarke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | credit |  |  |  |  | perhaps, unnecessary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | me | anything |  |  |  | about Mr Clarke's illustrations | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 3 | **illustrate** |  | Mr Clarke |  |  |  |  |  | nom illustration «communication transitive»: 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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