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title: Perrault flung himself with ardour into this work, though not to the… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Perrault flung himself with ardour into this work, though not to the exclusion of his other activities. Who acts: Perrault. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 38

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Perrault flung himself with ardour into this work, though not to the exclusion of his other activities.

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**Who acts:** Perrault · **What happens:** fling, exclude · **To what, where:** Quinault, work, other activities

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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 (Perrault), 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:pg29021:6:38
# text = Perrault flung himself with ardour into this work, though not to the exclusion of his other activities.
1	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ardour	ardour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	exclusion	exclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past | Perrault | Quinault |  | this work |  | with ardour; to the exclusion of Quinault's other activities | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into work=Destination |
| 2 | **exclude** |  |  | Quinault's other activities |  |  |  |  | nom exclusion «state 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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