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title: As a good Civil Servant he was no politician, and he showed no leani… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: As a good Civil Servant he was no politician, and he showed no leaning whatever toward what was regarded in his time as the greatest of all professions--that of arms. Who acts: first. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 97

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As a good Civil Servant he was no politician, and he showed no leaning whatever toward what was regarded in his time as the greatest of all professions--that of arms.

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**Who acts:** first · **What happens:** be, show, lean, regard · **To what, where:** politician, whatever

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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 (first), 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:pg29021:6:97
# text = As a good Civil Servant he was no politician, and he showed no leaning whatever toward what was regarded in his time as the greatest of all professions--that of arms.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	politician	politician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
17	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	professions	profession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | first | no politician |  |  |  | as a good Civil Servant; that *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | past | first | no politician *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent politician=Recipient |
| 3 | **lean** | gerund | first *not said here* | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whatever=Theme |
| 4 | **regard** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | time | as the greatest | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as great=Value |

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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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