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title: The Princess was more surprised than ever, and recollecting that it… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess was more surprised than ever, and recollecting that it was now that day twelvemonth on which she had promised to marry Riquet with the Tuft, she was like to sink into the ground. Who acts: Princess, chief. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Rese
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 19

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The Princess was more surprised than ever, and recollecting that it was now that day twelvemonth on which she had promised to marry Riquet with the Tuft, she was like to sink into the ground.

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**Who acts:** Princess, chief · **What happens:** be, recollect, promise, marry, sink · **To what, where:** day twelvemonth, Riquet, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, chief), 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:pg29021:13:19
# text = The Princess was more surprised than ever, and recollecting that it was now that day twelvemonth on which she had promised to marry Riquet with the Tuft, she was like to sink into the ground.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
10	recollecting	recollect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **recollect** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | chief | that day twelvemonth |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | Princess |  |  | that day twelvemonth |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Riquet |  |  |  | with the Tuft | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riquet=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **sink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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