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title: _Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction. Who acts: Quinault, house. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with its dependency tree
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 36

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\_Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction.

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**Who acts:** Quinault, house · **What happens:** engage, design, supervise, attend, construct · **To what, where:** Architecture, house, 1657, construction

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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, house), 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:pg29021:6:36
# text = _Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1657	1657	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	designed	design	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Viry	Viry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	supervised	supervise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | past |  | Architecture |  |  |  | next *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 2 | **design** | past | Quinault | a house |  | 1657 |  | at Viry; for Quinault's brother | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Result for brother=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **supervise** | past | Quinault *not said here* | house's construction |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality |
| 4 | **attend** |  | Quinault |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **construct** |  | house |  |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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