--- title: The beautiful Princess looked at herself, and with good reason, admi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The beautiful Princess looked at herself, and with good reason, admired her appearance so much that she resolved to wear her magnificent dresses in turn on holidays and Sundays for her own amusement, and this she regularly did. Who acts: beautiful Princess, Princess, this. A sentence of «The Fairy T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/114/) [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/) / 114 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 114 The beautiful Princess looked at herself, and with good reason, admired her appearance so much that she resolved to wear her magnificent dresses in turn on holidays and Sundays for her own amusement, and this she regularly did. **Who acts:** beautiful Princess, Princess, this · **What happens:** look, admire, resolve, wear, do, amuse · **To what, where:** appearance, magnificent dresses, turn 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 (beautiful Princess, Princess, this), 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:pg29021:15:114 # text = The beautiful Princess looked at herself, and with good reason, admired her appearance so much that she resolved to wear her magnificent dresses in turn on holidays and Sundays for her own amusement, and this she regularly did. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 admired admire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 much much ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 holidays holiday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Sundays Sunday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 amusement amusement NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 nsubj _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 regularly regularly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the beautiful Princess | | | | | at Princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at herself=Theme | | 2 | **admire** | past | the beautiful Princess *not said here* | Princess's appearance | | | | with good reason | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus | | 3 | **resolve** | past | Princess | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wear** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Princess's magnificent dresses | | turn | | on holidays for Princess's own amusement and Sundays | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | | 5 | **do** | past | this | | | | | regularly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **amuse** | | Princess | | | | | | nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/115/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)