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title: So Perrault, then just fifty-five, slid quietly from his service in… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: So Perrault, then just fifty-five, slid quietly from his service in the year 1683. Who acts: Perrault, Colbert. 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 66

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So Perrault, then just fifty-five, slid quietly from his service in the year 1683.

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**Who acts:** Perrault, Colbert · **What happens:** slide, service · **To what, where:** service

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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 (Perrault, Colbert), 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:pg29021:6:66
# text = So Perrault, then just fifty-five, slid quietly from his service in the year 1683.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	1683	1683	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | past | Perrault |  |  | Colbert's service in the year |  | quietly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from service=Trajectory |
| 2 | **service** |  | Colbert |  |  |  | in the year |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent in=obl |

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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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