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title: Perrault, in praising the writers of his own age, ventured to dispar… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Perrault, in praising the writers of his own age, ventured to disparage some of the great authors of the ancient classics. 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 pragma
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 53

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Perrault, in praising the writers of his own age, ventured to disparage some of the great authors of the ancient classics.

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**Who acts:** Perrault · **What happens:** praise, venture, disparage · **To what, where:** writers, some

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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:pg29021:6:53
# text = Perrault, in praising the writers of his own age, ventured to disparage some of the great authors of the ancient classics.
1	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	praising	praise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ventured	venture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	disparage	disparage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	classics	classic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | gerund | Perrault *not said here* | the writers of address's own age |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writer=Theme |
| 2 | **venture** | participle |  | the writers of address's own age *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **disparage** | to-infinitive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |

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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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