--- title: A fine collation was served up, whereof the young Prince ate not a m… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: A fine collation was served up, whereof the young Prince ate not a morsel, so intently was he busied in gazing on her. Who acts: young Prince. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/80/) [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/) / 80 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 80 A fine collation was served up, whereof the young Prince ate not a morsel, so intently was he busied in gazing on her. **Who acts:** young Prince · **What happens:** serve up, not eat, busy, gaze · **To what, where:** fine collation, morsel, Prince 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 (young Prince), 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:pg29021:11:80 # text = A fine collation was served up, whereof the young Prince ate not a morsel, so intently was he busied in gazing on her. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 collation collation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 whereof whereof ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 morsel morsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 intently intently ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 busied busy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 22 in in SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 gazing gaze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **serve up** | past · passive | | a fine collation | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | | 2 | **not** **eat** | past | the young Prince | a morsel | | | | whereof *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient | | 3 | **busy** | past · passive | | Prince | | | | intently *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **gaze** | gerund | | | | | | on collation | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on she=Theme | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/81/) - ↑ back to [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/)