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title: _In 1651 he took his degree at the University of Orléans, where degr… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _In 1651 he took his degree at the University of Orléans, where degrees were given with scandalous readiness, payment of fees being the only essential preliminary. Who acts: _. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 23

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\_In 1651 he took his degree at the University of Orléans, where degrees were given with scandalous readiness, payment of fees being the only essential preliminary.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** take, give, be · **To what, where:** degree, University, degrees, only essential preliminary

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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 (\_), 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:pg29021:6:23
# text = _In 1651 he took his degree at the University of Orléans, where degrees were given with scandalous readiness, payment of fees being the only essential preliminary.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1651	1651	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Orléans	Orléans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	scandalous	scandalous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	readiness	readiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	fees	fee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	preliminary	preliminary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | \_ in 1651 | \_'s degree |  | the University of Orléans |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent degree=Theme at university=Asset |
| 2 | **give** | past · passive |  | degrees |  |  |  | with scandalous readiness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund |  | the only essential preliminary |  |  |  | of fees | 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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