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title: We are fortunate in knowing a great deal about his varied life, deri… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 7

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We are fortunate in knowing a great deal about his varied life, deriving our knowledge mainly from D'Alembert's history of the French Academy and from his own memoirs, which were written for his grandchildren, but not published till sixty-six years after his death.

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**Who acts:** We, man · **What happens:** be, know, derive, write, not publish, die · **To what, where:** great deal, knowledge, history, own memoirs

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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 (We, man), 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:pg29021:6:7
# text = We are fortunate in knowing a great deal about his varied life, deriving our knowledge mainly from D'Alembert's history of the French Academy and from his own memoirs, which were written for his grandchildren, but not published till sixty-six years after his death.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	varied	varied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	deriving	derive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	D'Alembert	D'Alembert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Academy	Academy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	memoirs	memoir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
42	till	till	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
47	after	after	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | We |  |  |  |  | fortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | We *not said here* | a great deal |  |  |  | about man's varied life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus |
| 3 | **derive** | gerund | We *not said here* | our knowledge |  | D'Alembert's history of the French Academy and man's own memoirs |  | mainly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent knowledge=Result from history=Material |
| 4 | **write** | past · passive |  | man's own memoirs |  |  |  | for man's grandchildren | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for grandchild=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **not** **publish** | participle | We *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **die** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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