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title: Beaurain and his brother Nicholas, a doctor of the Sorbonne, assiste… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Beaurain and his brother Nicholas, a doctor of the Sorbonne, assisted him in this perpetration, and Claude made the pen-and-ink sketches with which it was illustrated. Who acts: Beaurain, Claude, pen. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess W
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 31

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Beaurain and his brother Nicholas, a doctor of the Sorbonne, assisted him in this perpetration, and Claude made the pen-and-ink sketches with which it was illustrated.

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**Who acts:** Beaurain, Claude, pen · **What happens:** assist, make, sketch, illustrate · **To what, where:** Nicholas, perpetration, pen

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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 (Beaurain, Claude, pen), 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:pg29021:6:31
# text = Beaurain and his brother Nicholas, a doctor of the Sorbonne, assisted him in this perpetration, and Claude made the pen-and-ink sketches with which it was illustrated.
1	Beaurain	Beaurain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sorbonne	Sorbonne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	assisted	assist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	perpetration	perpetration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Claude	Claude	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
23	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	sketches	sketch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assist** | past | Beaurain and Nicholas  Beaurain's brother |  | Nicholas | this perpetration |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **make** | past | Claude |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sketch** |  | pen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **illustrate** | past · passive |  | pen |  |  |  | with the ink sketches | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with 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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