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title: _Charles Perrault must have been as charming a fellow as a man could… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _Charles Perrault must have been as charming a fellow as a man could meet. Who acts: Charles, man. 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 clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 5

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\_Charles Perrault must have been as charming a fellow as a man could meet.

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**Who acts:** Charles, man · **What happens:** charm, meet · **To what, where:** fellow

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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 (Charles, man), 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:pg29021:6:5
# text = _Charles Perrault must have been as charming a fellow as a man could meet.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charm** | must · perfect · progressive | Charles | a fellow |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fellow=Experiencer |
| 2 | **meet** | could | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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