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title: Perrault's case is finally stated in his four volumes, "Le Parallèle… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Perrault's case is finally stated in his four volumes, "Le Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes," which were published in 1688-1696. Who acts: Le Parallèle. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with its dependency tree
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 58

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Perrault's case is finally stated in his four volumes, "Le Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes," which were published in 1688-1696.

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**Who acts:** Le Parallèle · **What happens:** state, de, publish · **To what, where:** case, four volumes, Anciens, 1688-1696 · **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 (Le Parallèle), 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:pg29021:6:58
# text = Perrault's case is finally stated in his four volumes, "Le Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes," which were published in 1688-1696.
1	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	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	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Parallèle	Parallèle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	Anciens	ancien	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Modernes	moderne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1688-1696	1688-1696	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Perrault's case |  | man's four volumes |  | finally *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **de** *in a quote* | present | Le Parallèle | Anciens et des Modernes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **publish** | past · passive |  | Anciens et des Modernes |  | 1688-1696 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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