--- title: The King himself, old as he was, could not help ogling her, and tell… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The King himself, old as he was, could not help ogling her, and telling the Queen softly, "that it was a long time since he had seen so beautiful and lovely a creature." Who acts: King, doubt. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up Fir --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/77/) [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/) / 77 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 77 The King himself, old as he was, could not help ogling her, and telling the Queen softly, "that it was a long time since he had seen so beautiful and lovely a creature." **Who acts:** King, doubt · **What happens:** be, not help, ogle, tell, see · **To what, where:** silence, Queen, long time · **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 (King, doubt), 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:pg29021:11:77 # text = The King himself, old as he was, could not help ogling her, and telling the Queen softly, "that it was a long time since he had seen so beautiful and lovely a creature." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 ogling ogle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 softly softly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 29 since since SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | King | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **help** | could | the King King | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **ogle** *not said to happen* | gerund | the King King *not said here* | silence | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the King King *not said here* | | the Queen | | | softly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | doubt | a long time | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **see** *in a quote* | past · perfect | King | | | | | beautiful *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/78/) - ↑ back to [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/)