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title: Colbert approved so much of this performance that he employed him in… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Colbert approved so much of this performance that he employed him in the superintendence of the royal buildings and put him in special charge of Versailles, which was then in process of erection. Who acts: Colbert, special charge. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrau
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 37

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Colbert approved so much of this performance that he employed him in the superintendence of the royal buildings and put him in special charge of Versailles, which was then in process of erection.

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**Who acts:** Colbert, special charge · **What happens:** approve, employ, put, be, superintend, charge · **To what, where:** much, Quinault, superintendence, special charge, process, royal buildings

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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 (Colbert, special charge), 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:pg29021:6:37
# text = Colbert approved so much of this performance that he employed him in the superintendence of the royal buildings and put him in special charge of Versailles, which was then in process of erection.
1	Colbert	Colbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	approved	approve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	superintendence	superintendence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Versailles	Versailles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	erection	erection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **approve** | past | Colbert | much of this performance |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **employ** | past | Colbert | Quinault |  | the superintendence of the royal buildings |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | Colbert *not said here* | Quinault |  | special charge of Versailles |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in charge=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | special charge of Versailles |  |  | process | then | of erection | tree rules |
| 5 | **superintend** |  |  | the royal buildings |  |  |  |  | nom superintendence «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **charge** |  |  | Versailles |  |  |  |  | nom charge «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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