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title: _Before he went, he succeeded in frustrating a project for closing t… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _Before he went, he succeeded in frustrating a project for closing the Tuileries Gardens against the people of Paris and their children. Who acts: influence. 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 68

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\_Before he went, he succeeded in frustrating a project for closing the Tuileries Gardens against the people of Paris and their children.

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**Who acts:** influence · **What happens:** go, succeed, frustrate, close · **To what, where:** project, Tuileries Gardens

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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 (influence), 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:pg29021:6:68
# text = _Before he went, he succeeded in frustrating a project for closing the Tuileries Gardens against the people of Paris and their children.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	frustrating	frustrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Tuileries	Tuilery	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	Gardens	Garden	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | influence |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **succeed** | past | influence |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **frustrate** | gerund | influence *not said here* | a project |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus project=Experiencer |
| 4 | **close** | gerund | influence *not said here* | the Tuileries Gardens |  |  |  | against the people of Paris and people's children | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=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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