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title: She continued walking, but had not taken thirty steps before Riquet… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: She continued walking, but had not taken thirty steps before Riquet with the Tuft presented himself to her, bravely and most magnificently dressed, like a Prince who was going to be married. Who acts: Princess, Tuft, Prince. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Ha
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 21

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She continued walking, but had not taken thirty steps before Riquet with the Tuft presented himself to her, bravely and most magnificently dressed, like a Prince who was going to be married.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Tuft, Prince · **What happens:** continue, walk, not take, present, dress, go · **To what, where:** thirty steps, Tuft, Princess

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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, Tuft, Prince), 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:pg29021:13:21
# text = She continued walking, but had not taken thirty steps before Riquet with the Tuft presented himself to her, bravely and most magnificently dressed, like a Prince who was going to be married.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
9	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Riquet	Riquet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Tuft	Tuft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **take** | past · perfect | Princess *not said here* | thirty steps |  |  | before Riquet |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme before riquet=Destination |
| 4 | **present** | past | the Tuft | Tuft | Princess |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to she=Recipient |
| 5 | **dress** | participle | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | magnificently *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past · progressive | a Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | a Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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