--- title: What they said was very true; for a few days after, the King's son c… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: What they said was very true; for a few days after, the King's son caused it to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet, that he would marry her whose foot this slipper would just fit. Who acts: sisters, son, sound, slipper. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/3/) [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/) / [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/) / 3 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 3 What they said was very true; for a few days after, the King's son caused it to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet, that he would marry her whose foot this slipper would just fit. **Who acts:** sisters, son, sound, slipper · **What happens:** say, be, cause, proclaim, marry, fit · **To what, where:** ball, Cinderilla · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (sisters, son, sound, slipper), 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:pg29021:12:3 # text = What they said was very true; for a few days after, the King's son caused it to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet, that he would marry her whose foot this slipper would just fit. 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 after after ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 proclaimed proclaim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 trumpet trumpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 slipper slipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 just just ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sisters *= sister* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | after, true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **cause** | past | the King's son | ball | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient | | 4 | **proclaim** | to-infinitive · passive | sound of trumpet | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **marry** | would | son | Cinderilla | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fit** | would | this slipper | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/4/) - ↑ back to [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/)