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title: Racine, more adroit, pretended to think that the poem was a piece of… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Racine, more adroit, pretended to think that the poem was a piece of ingenious irony. Who acts: poem. 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 55

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Racine, more adroit, pretended to think that the poem was a piece of ingenious irony.

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**Who acts:** poem · **What happens:** pretend, think, be · **To what, where:** piece · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (poem), 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:pg29021:6:55
# text = Racine, more adroit, pretended to think that the poem was a piece of ingenious irony.
1	Racine	racine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	adroit	adroit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	irony	irony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the poem | a piece |  |  |  | of ingenious irony | tree rules |

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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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