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title: The Bar proved too arid a profession to engage for long his attentio… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bar proved too arid a profession to engage for long his attention; so he next sought and found a place in the office of another brother, Pierre, who was Chief Commissioner of Taxes in Paris. Who acts: Bar, Pierre. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thoug
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 26

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The Bar proved too arid a profession to engage for long his attention; so he next sought and found a place in the office of another brother, Pierre, who was Chief Commissioner of Taxes in Paris.

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**Who acts:** Bar, Pierre · **What happens:** prove, engage, seek, find, be, attend · **To what, where:** profession, place, office, Chief Commissioner

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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 (Bar, Pierre), 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:pg29021:6:26
# text = The Bar proved too arid a profession to engage for long his attention; so he next sought and found a place in the office of another brother, Pierre, who was Chief Commissioner of Taxes in Paris.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bar	Bar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	arid	arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	profession	profession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	next	next	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Commissioner	commissioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past | the Bar | a profession |  |  |  | arid *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profession=Theme |
| 2 | **engage** | to-infinitive | the Bar *not said here* | a profession *not said here* |  |  |  | for Bar's attention | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **seek** | past | Bar |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | Bar *not said here* | a place |  | the office of another brother |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Pierre | Chief Commissioner |  |  |  | of Taxes in Paris | tree rules |
| 6 | **attend** |  | Bar |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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