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title: Having abandoned medicine and theology he got called to the Bar, pra… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Having abandoned medicine and theology he got called to the Bar, practised for a while with distinct success, and coquetted with a notion of codifying the laws of the realm. Who acts: notion. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Qu
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 25

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Having abandoned medicine and theology he got called to the Bar, practised for a while with distinct success, and coquetted with a notion of codifying the laws of the realm.

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**Who acts:** notion · **What happens:** have, abandon, call, practise, coquet, codify · **To what, where:** abandoned medicine, degree, Bar, laws · **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 (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:pg29021:6:25
# text = Having abandoned medicine and theology he got called to the Bar, practised for a while with distinct success, and coquetted with a notion of codifying the laws of the realm.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	theology	theology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Bar	Bar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	coquetted	coquet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	codifying	codify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | abandoned medicine and theology |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 2 | **abandon** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | degree | the Bar |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to bar=Recipient |
| 4 | **practise** | participle |  |  |  |  | while | with distinct success | tree rules |
| 5 | **coquet** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with a notion | tree rules |
| 6 | **codify** | gerund | a notion *not said here* | the laws of the realm |  |  |  |  | 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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