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title: _For want of further occupation he returned to the writing of verse,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _For want of further occupation he returned to the writing of verse, one of the chief pleasures of his boyhood. Who acts: want. 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 of every c
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 29

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\_For want of further occupation he returned to the writing of verse, one of the chief pleasures of his boyhood.

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**Who acts:** want · **What happens:** return, want, write, please · **To what, where:** one, further occupation, verse, boyhood

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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 (want), 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:pg29021:6:29
# text = _For want of further occupation he returned to the writing of verse, one of the chief pleasures of his boyhood.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | want of further occupation | one of the chief pleasures of want's boyhood |  |  |  | to the writing of verse *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to writing=Result |
| 2 | **want** |  |  | further occupation |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **write** |  |  | verse |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **please** |  |  | want's boyhood |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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