--- title: She shut herself in her little room, threw off the ugly skin, bathed… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: She shut herself in her little room, threw off the ugly skin, bathed her face and hands, arranged her hair, put on a beautiful corsage of bright silver, and an equally beautiful petticoat, and then set herself to make the much desired cake. Who acts: skin, beautiful petticoat. A sentence of «The Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/150/) [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/) / 150 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 150 She shut herself in her little room, threw off the ugly skin, bathed her face and hands, arranged her hair, put on a beautiful corsage of bright silver, and an equally beautiful petticoat, and then set herself to make the much desired cake. **Who acts:** skin, beautiful petticoat · **What happens:** shut, throw off, bath, arrange, put, set · **To what, where:** skin, little room, ugly skin, face, hair, beautiful corsage 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 (skin, beautiful petticoat), 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:pg29021:15:150 # text = She shut herself in her little room, threw off the ugly skin, bathed her face and hands, arranged her hair, put on a beautiful corsage of bright silver, and an equally beautiful petticoat, and then set herself to make the much desired cake. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 off off ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bathed bath VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 arranged arrange VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 corsage corsage NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 equally equally ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 petticoat petticoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 42 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl _ _ 43 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 42 obj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 desired desire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 amod _ _ 49 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shut** | past | skin | skin | | skin's little room | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | | 2 | **throw off** | past | | the ugly skin | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 3 | **bath** | past | | skin's face and hands | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **arrange** | past | | skin's hair | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product | | 5 | **put** | participle | | skin's hair *not said here* | | a beautiful corsage of bright silver | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on corsage=Destination | | 6 | **set** | infinitive | a beautiful petticoat *not said here* | skin | | | then | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient herself=Result | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | a beautiful petticoat *not said here* | the much desired cake | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product | | 8 | **desire** | participle | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/149/) - next →: [sentence 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/151/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)