--- title: At last the happy day came; they went to Court, and Cinderilla follo… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: At last the happy day came; they went to Court, and Cinderilla followed them with her eyes as long as she could, and when she had lost sight of them she fell a-crying. Who acts: last happy day, Cinderilla, Court. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last happy day, Cinderilla, Court), 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:pg29021:11:42 # text = At last the happy day came; they went to Court, and Cinderilla followed them with her eyes as long as she could, and when she had lost sight of them she fell a-crying. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Court Court PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 Cinderilla Cinderilla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 as as ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 27 when when SCONJ WRB _ 30 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 31 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the last happy day | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | Cinderilla | | | Court | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **follow** | past | Cinderilla | laces *= lace* | | | | with Court's eyes; long *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | past · perfect | Court | sight of Cinderilla | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | | 5 | **fall** | past | Court | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Court *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sight** | | | Cinderilla | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/43/) - ↑ back to [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/)