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title: Those expressed in his poem "Le Siècle de Louis XIV," which he read… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Those expressed in his poem "Le Siècle de Louis XIV," which he read as an Academician of sixteen years' standing, initiated one of the most famous and lasting literary quarrels of the era. Who acts: address, Academician, sixteen years, era. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Char
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 52

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Those expressed in his poem "Le Siècle de Louis XIV," which he read as an Academician of sixteen years' standing, initiated one of the most famous and lasting literary quarrels of the era.

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**Who acts:** address, Academician, sixteen years, era · **What happens:** express, read, initiate, last, stand, quarrel · **To what, where:** poem, one

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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, Academician, sixteen years, era), 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:pg29021:6:52
# text = Those expressed in his poem "Le Siècle de Louis XIV," which he read as an Academician of sixteen years' standing, initiated one of the most famous and lasting literary quarrels of the era.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	Siècle	Siècle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	XIV	XIV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Academician	Academician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	lasting	last	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
34	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | participle |  |  |  | address's poem |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **read** | past | address |  |  |  |  | as a Academician of sixteen years's standing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus as academician=Attribute |
| 3 | **initiate** | participle | a Academician of sixteen years's standing *not said here* | one of the famous literary quarrels of the era |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **last** | gerund | a Academician of sixteen years's standing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** |  | sixteen years |  |  |  |  |  | nom standing «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **quarrel** |  | the era |  |  |  |  |  | nom quarrel «communication intransitive»: of=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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