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title: Boileau lashed himself into a fury of opposition and hurled strident… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Boileau lashed himself into a fury of opposition and hurled strident insults against the heretic. Who acts: Boileau. 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 54

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Boileau lashed himself into a fury of opposition and hurled strident insults against the heretic.

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**Who acts:** Boileau · **What happens:** lash, hurl, infuriate · **To what, where:** Boileau, fury, strident insults, heretic, opposition

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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 (Boileau), 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:pg29021:6:54
# text = Boileau lashed himself into a fury of opposition and hurled strident insults against the heretic.
1	Boileau	Boileau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lashed	lash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	strident	strident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	insults	insult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heretic	heretic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lash** | past | Boileau | Boileau |  |  |  | into a fury of opposition *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into fury=Result |
| 2 | **hurl** | past | Boileau *not said here* | strident insults |  | the heretic |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent insult=Theme against heretic=Destination |
| 3 | **infuriate** |  |  | opposition |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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