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title: It is seldom, indeed, that an illustrator enters so thoroughly into… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: It is seldom, indeed, that an illustrator enters so thoroughly into the spirit of his text. Who acts: publisher, illustrator. 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 cla
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 142

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It is seldom, indeed, that an illustrator enters so thoroughly into the spirit of his text.

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**Who acts:** publisher, illustrator · **What happens:** be, enter · **To what, where:** spirit

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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 (publisher, illustrator), 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:pg29021:6:142
# text = It is seldom, indeed, that an illustrator enters so thoroughly into the spirit of his text.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	illustrator	illustrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | publisher |  |  |  |  | indeed, seldom *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | present | a illustrator |  |  | the spirit of illustrator's text |  | thoroughly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into spirit=Initial\_Location |

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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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