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title: Here Perrault had little to do save to read at large in the excellen… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Here Perrault had little to do save to read at large in the excellent library which his brother had formed. Who acts: Perrault, brother. 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 o
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 27

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Here Perrault had little to do save to read at large in the excellent library which his brother had formed.

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**Who acts:** Perrault, brother · **What happens:** have, save, read, form · **To what, where:** little, excellent library

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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 (Perrault, brother), 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:pg29021:6:27
# text = Here Perrault had little to do save to read at large in the excellent library which his brother had formed.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
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	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Perrault | little |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive · do-support | Perrault *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | Perrault *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **form** | past · perfect | Bar's brother | the excellent library |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme |

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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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