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title: His inaugural address was heard with such approval that he ventured… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: His inaugural address was heard with such approval that he ventured to suggest that the inauguration of future members should be a public function. Who acts: address, inauguration, Charles. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Quee
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 47

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His inaugural address was heard with such approval that he ventured to suggest that the inauguration of future members should be a public function.

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**Who acts:** address, inauguration, Charles · **What happens:** hear, venture, suggest, be, address, inaugurate · **To what, where:** inaugural address, public function, future members · **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 (address, inauguration, Charles), 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:pg29021:6:47
# text = His inaugural address was heard with such approval that he ventured to suggest that the inauguration of future members should be a public function.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	inaugural	inaugural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	inauguration	inauguration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	function	function	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | Charles's inaugural address |  |  |  | with such approval | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **venture** | past | address |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | to-infinitive | address *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | should | the inauguration of future members | a public function |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **address** |  | Charles |  |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **inaugurate** |  |  | future members |  |  |  |  | nom inauguration «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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