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title: Toward the end of his life he busied himself with the "Éloges des Ho… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Toward the end of his life he busied himself with the "Éloges des Hommes Illustres du Siècle de Louis XIV." Who acts: Apologie. 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 c
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 84

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Toward the end of his life he busied himself with the "Éloges des Hommes Illustres du Siècle de Louis XIV."

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**Who acts:** Apologie · **What happens:** busy · **To what, where:** Apologie

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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 (Apologie), 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:pg29021:6:84
# text = Toward the end of his life he busied himself with the "Éloges des Hommes Illustres du Siècle de Louis XIV."
1	Toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	busied	busy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Éloges	Éloges	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Hommes	homme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	Illustres	Illustre	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	compound	_	_
17	du	du	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	dep	_	_
18	Siècle	Siècle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	XIV	XIV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **busy** | past | Apologie | Apologie |  |  | toward the end of Apologie's life | with the Illustres Siècle Louis XIV | tree rules |

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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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