--- title: Meanwhile the Princess walked far, far and even farther away; after… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile the Princess walked far, far and even farther away; after a time she sought for a resting place, but although out of charity people gave her food, she was so dishevelled and dirty that no one wanted to keep her. Who acts: Princess, people, one. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Per --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/100/) [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/) / [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/) / 100 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 100 Meanwhile the Princess walked far, far and even farther away; after a time she sought for a resting place, but although out of charity people gave her food, she was so dishevelled and dirty that no one wanted to keep her. **Who acts:** Princess, people, one · **What happens:** walk, seek, give, be, want, keep · **To what, where:** food, Princess This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, people, one), 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:pg29021:15:100 # text = Meanwhile the Princess walked far, far and even farther away; after a time she sought for a resting place, but although out of charity people gave her food, she was so dishevelled and dirty that no one wanted to keep her. 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 resting resting NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 although although SCONJ IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 dishevelled dishevelled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 41 det _ _ 41 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | the Princess | | | | | far, meanwhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seek** | past | Princess | | | | time | for a resting place | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | people | food | Princess | | | although charity | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | Princess | | | | | dishevelled *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | Princess *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **want** | past | no one | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | Princess | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/101/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)