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title: In the few years that had elapsed since the writing of this burlesqu… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In the few years that had elapsed since the writing of this burlesque Perrault had acquired more sense and taste, and his new poems--in particular the "Portrait d'Iris" and the "Dialogue entre l'Amour et l'Amitié"--were found charming by his contemporaries. Who acts: that, Perrault, new poems. A sen
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 32

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In the few years that had elapsed since the writing of this burlesque Perrault had acquired more sense and taste, and his new poems--in particular the "Portrait d'Iris" and the "Dialogue entre l'Amour et l'Amitié"--were found charming by his contemporaries.

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**Who acts:** that, Perrault, new poems · **What happens:** elapse, acquire, find, charm, write · **To what, where:** more sense, new poems, burlesque

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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 (that, Perrault, new poems), 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:pg29021:6:32
# text = In the few years that had elapsed since the writing of this burlesque Perrault had acquired more sense and taste, and his new poems--in particular the "Portrait d'Iris" and the "Dialogue entre l'Amour et l'Amitié"--were found charming by his contemporaries.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	elapsed	elapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	burlesque	burlesque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Portrait	Portrait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	d'Iris	d'iris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Dialogue	dialogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	entre	entre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	l'Amour	l'amour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
40	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	41	compound	_	_
41	l'Amitié	l'amitié	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
46	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	xcomp	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	contemporaries	contemporary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elapse** | past · perfect | that |  |  |  | since the writing of this burlesque; year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **acquire** | past · perfect | Perrault | more sense and taste |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past · passive |  | Nicholas's new poems  the particular Portrait d'Iris and the entre l'Amour and et l'Amitié |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **charm** | gerund | Nicholas's new poems  the particular Portrait d'Iris and the entre l'Amour and et l'Amitié *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Nicholas's contemporaries | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **write** |  |  | this burlesque |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act 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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