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title: The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper, looked earnestly at C… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper, looked earnestly at Cinderilla, and finding her very handsome, said it was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let every one make tryal. Who acts: gentleman, finding, ball, one. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 9

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The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper, looked earnestly at Cinderilla, and finding her very handsome, said it was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let every one make tryal.

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**Who acts:** gentleman, finding, ball, one · **What happens:** send, try, look, find, say, be · **To what, where:** gentleman, slipper, handsome, orders, one, tryal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (gentleman, finding, ball, one), 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:pg29021:12:9
# text = The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper, looked earnestly at Cinderilla, and finding her very handsome, said it was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let every one make tryal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
36	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
42	tryal	tryal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | the gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | the gentleman *not said here* | the slipper |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look** | past | the gentleman |  |  |  |  | at Cinderilla; earnestly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cinderilla=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | gerund |  | Cinderilla's handsome |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handsome=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | finding |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | should · past | ball |  |  |  |  | try *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | gentleman | orders |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient |
| 8 | **let** | to-infinitive | gentleman *not said here* | every one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **make** | infinitive | every one *not said here* | tryal |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tryal=Product |

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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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