--- title: The King's son, who was told that a great Princess, whom nobody knew… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The King's son, who was told that a great Princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her; he gave her his hand as she alighted out of the coach, and led her into the hall, among all the company. Who acts: nobody, son, tale. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/72/) [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/) / 72 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 72 The King's son, who was told that a great Princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her; he gave her his hand as she alighted out of the coach, and led her into the hall, among all the company. **Who acts:** nobody, son, tale · **What happens:** tell, know, be, run out, receive, give · **To what, where:** son, great Princess, tale, hand, coach, hall · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (nobody, son, tale), 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:pg29021:11:72 # text = The King's son, who was told that a great Princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her; he gave her his hand as she alighted out of the coach, and led her into the hall, among all the company. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 15 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 16 nsubj _ _ 16 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 come come ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 21 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 alighted alight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 35 out out ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 into into ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 among among ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 50 det:predet _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | the King's son | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **know** | past | nobody | a great Princess | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | nobody *not said here* | | | | | come *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **run out** | past | the King's son | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the King's son *not said here* | tale | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **give** | past | son | son's hand | tale | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hand=Theme | | 7 | **alight** | participle | tale | | | the coach | | | tree rules | | 8 | **lead** | past | the King's son *not said here* | tale | | the hall | | among all company | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/73/) - ↑ back to [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/)