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title: _After twenty years in the service of Colbert, the sun of Perrault's… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _After twenty years in the service of Colbert, the sun of Perrault's fortunes passed its zenith. Who acts: sun. 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 61

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\_After twenty years in the service of Colbert, the sun of Perrault's fortunes passed its zenith.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** pass, service · **To what, where:** zenith, service, Colbert

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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 (sun), 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:pg29021:6:61
# text = _After twenty years in the service of Colbert, the sun of Perrault's fortunes passed its zenith.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Colbert	Colbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	zenith	zenith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the sun of Perrault's fortunes | sun's zenith |  | the service of Colbert | year |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent zenith=Theme in service=Destination |
| 2 | **service** |  |  | Colbert |  |  |  |  | nom service «act 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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