--- title: They sent for the best tire-woman they could get, to make up their h… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: They sent for the best tire-woman they could get, to make up their head-dresses, and adjust their double-pinners,[3] and they had their red brushes, and patches from the fashionable maker. Who acts: amends. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/) / 31 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 31 They sent for the best tire-woman they could get, to make up their head-dresses, and adjust their double-pinners,\[3\] and they had their red brushes, and patches from the fashionable maker. **Who acts:** amends · **What happens:** send, get, make up, adjust, have · **To what, where:** 3, head dresses, double pinners, red brushes This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:11:31 # text = They sent for the best tire-woman they could get, to make up their head-dresses, and adjust their double-pinners,[3] and they had their red brushes, and patches from the fashionable maker. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 6 tire tire NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 adjust adjust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 pinners pinner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 brushes brush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 fashionable fashionable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 maker maker NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | amends *= amend* | 3 | | | | patches from the fashionable maker *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | could | amends *= amend* | | | | | for the best tire woman | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for woman=Beneficiary | | 3 | **make up** | to-infinitive | amends *= amend* *not said here* | amends's head dresses | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dress=Pivot | | 4 | **adjust** | infinitive | amends *= amend* *not said here* | amends's double pinners | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinner=Patient | | 5 | **have** | past | amends *= amend* | amends's red brushes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/32/) - ↑ back to [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/)