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title: The doctors, not knowing what more to do, declared to the Queen that… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The doctors, not knowing what more to do, declared to the Queen that the Prince's malady was love, whereupon the Queen and the disconsolate King ran to their son. Who acts: doctors, malady, Queen. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its depend
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 158

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The doctors, not knowing what more to do, declared to the Queen that the Prince's malady was love, whereupon the Queen and the disconsolate King ran to their son.

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**Who acts:** doctors, malady, Queen · **What happens:** not know, do, declare, be, run · **To what, where:** Queen, love

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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 (doctors, malady, Queen), 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:pg29021:15:158
# text = The doctors, not knowing what more to do, declared to the Queen that the Prince's malady was love, whereupon the Queen and the disconsolate King ran to their son.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	malady	malady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	disconsolate	disconsolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | gerund | the doctors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | the doctors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | participle | the doctors |  | the Queen |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the Prince's malady | love |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** | past | the Queen and the disconsolate King |  |  |  |  | to doctors's son *result*; whereupon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to son=Result |

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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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