--- title: The King's son conducted her to the most honourable seat, and afterw… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The King's son conducted her to the most honourable seat, and afterwards took her out to dance with him: she danced so very gracefully, that they all more and more admired her. Who acts: son, silence, ladies. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/79/) [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/) / 79 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 79 The King's son conducted her to the most honourable seat, and afterwards took her out to dance with him: she danced so very gracefully, that they all more and more admired her. **Who acts:** son, silence, ladies · **What happens:** conduct, take out, dance, all, admire · **To what, where:** silence, honourable seat, more 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 (son, silence, ladies), 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:pg29021:11:79 # text = The King's son conducted her to the most honourable seat, and afterwards took her out to dance with him: she danced so very gracefully, that they all more and more admired her. 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 5 nsubj _ _ 5 conducted conduct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 10 advmod _ _ 10 honourable honourable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 gracefully gracefully ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 all all VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 35 admired admire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conduct** | past | the King's son | silence | | the honourable seat | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to seat=Destination | | 2 | **take out** | past | the King's son *not said here* | silence | | | | afterwards *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 3 | **dance** | to-infinitive | the King's son *not said here* | | | | | with son | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dance** | past | silence | | | | | gracefully *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **all** | present | ladies *= lady* | more | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **admire** | past | ladies *= lady* *not said here* | silence | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/80/) - ↑ back to [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/)