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title: _The novelty of his views did not always commend them to his brother… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _The novelty of his views did not always commend them to his brother 'Immortals.' Who acts: novelty, address. 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 51

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\_The novelty of his views did not always commend them to his brother 'Immortals.'

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**Who acts:** novelty, address · **What happens:** not commend, view · **To what, where:** views

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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 (novelty, address), 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:pg29021:6:51
# text = _The novelty of his views did not always commend them to his brother 'Immortals.'
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	novelty	novelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	commend	commend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Immortals	immortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **commend** | past · do-support | the novelty of address's views | views *= view* |  |  |  | to address's brother's Immortals; always *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **view** |  | address |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition 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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