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title: In the mean-time he had walked the hospitals with some vague notion… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In the mean-time he had walked the hospitals with some vague notion of following his brother Claude into the profession of medicine, and had played a small part as a theological controversialist in the quarrel then raging, about the nature of grace, between the Jesuits and the Jansenists. Who acts: 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 24

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In the mean-time he had walked the hospitals with some vague notion of following his brother Claude into the profession of medicine, and had played a small part as a theological controversialist in the quarrel then raging, about the nature of grace, between the Jesuits and the Jansenists.

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**Who acts:** degree, vague notion · **What happens:** walk, follow, play, rage · **To what, where:** hospitals, brother, small part

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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 (degree, vague notion), 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:pg29021:6:24
# text = In the mean-time he had walked the hospitals with some vague notion of following his brother Claude into the profession of medicine, and had played a small part as a theological controversialist in the quarrel then raging, about the nature of grace, between the Jesuits and the Jansenists.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	mean	mean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	Claude	Claude	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	profession	profession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	theological	theological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	controversialist	controversialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
40	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	about	about	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	between	between	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Jesuits	Jesuit	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Jansenists	Jansenist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · perfect | degree | the hospitals |  |  | time | with some vague notion | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hospital=Trajectory |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | some vague notion *not said here* | degree's brother |  |  |  | into the profession of medicine | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent brother=Theme into profession=Trajectory |
| 3 | **play** | past · perfect | degree *not said here* | a small part |  |  |  | as a theological controversialist in the quarrel | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 4 | **rage** | gerund | degree *not said here* |  |  |  | then | about the nature of grace; between the Jesuits and the Jansenists | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about nature=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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