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title: In a matter of the sort Perrault, though a courtier, could be relied… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In a matter of the sort Perrault, though a courtier, could be relied on to consider no wishes save those of his future wife and himself. Who acts: wishes, sort. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with its dependency t
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 64

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In a matter of the sort Perrault, though a courtier, could be relied on to consider no wishes save those of his future wife and himself.

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**Who acts:** wishes, sort · **What happens:** rely on, consider, save, matter · **To what, where:** matter, those

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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 (wishes, sort), 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:pg29021:6:64
# text = In a matter of the sort Perrault, though a courtier, could be relied on to consider no wishes save those of his future wife and himself.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	courtier	courtier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	relied	rely	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rely on** | could · passive |  |  |  | a matter of the sort and a courtier |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING» |
| 2 | **consider** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | present | no wishes | those |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **matter** |  | the sort |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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