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title: When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderilla asked them i… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderilla asked them if they had been well diverted, and if the fine lady had been there. Who acts: two sisters, Cinderilla, fine lady. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], with its dep
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 1

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When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderilla asked them if they had been well diverted, and if the fine lady had been there.

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**Who acts:** two sisters, Cinderilla, fine lady · **What happens:** return, ask, divert, be · **To what, where:** ball, sisters

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sisters, Cinderilla, fine lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29021:12:1
# text = When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderilla asked them if they had been well diverted, and if the fine lady had been there.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	diverted	divert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the two sisters |  |  | the ball |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ball=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Cinderilla |  | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **divert** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the fine lady |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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