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title: They were issued anonymously, and Quinault, himself a poet of establ… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: They were issued anonymously, and Quinault, himself a poet of established reputation, used some of them to forward his suit with a young lady, allowing her to think that they were his own. Who acts: Quinault, Claude, poems. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 33

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They were issued anonymously, and Quinault, himself a poet of established reputation, used some of them to forward his suit with a young lady, allowing her to think that they were his own.

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**Who acts:** Quinault, Claude, poems · **What happens:** issue, establish, use, forward, allow, think · **To what, where:** poems, some, suit, Claude · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Quinault, Claude, 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:pg29021:6:33
# text = They were issued anonymously, and Quinault, himself a poet of established reputation, used some of them to forward his suit with a young lady, allowing her to think that they were his own.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	anonymously	anonymously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
7	Quinault	Quinault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	forward	forward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past · passive |  | poems *= poem* |  |  |  | anonymously *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **use** | past | Quinault | some |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 4 | **forward** | to-infinitive | Quinault *not said here* | Quinault's suit |  |  |  | with a young lady | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Theme |
| 5 | **allow** | gerund | Quinault *not said here* | Claude |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Claude *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | poems *= poem* |  |  |  |  | own *property* | tree rules |

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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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