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title: He ordered the drums and fifes and trumpets to be sounded throughout… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: He ordered the drums and fifes and trumpets to be sounded throughout the town, and the heralds to cry that she whose finger a certain ring would fit should marry the heir to the throne. Who acts: King, heralds, Queen, certain ring. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perra
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 166

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He ordered the drums and fifes and trumpets to be sounded throughout the town, and the heralds to cry that she whose finger a certain ring would fit should marry the heir to the throne.

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**Who acts:** King, heralds, Queen, certain ring · **What happens:** order, sound, cry, finger, fit, marry · **To what, where:** drums, town, finger, heir

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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 (King, heralds, Queen, certain ring), 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:pg29021:15:166
# text = He ordered the drums and fifes and trumpets to be sounded throughout the town, and the heralds to cry that she whose finger a certain ring would fit should marry the heir to the throne.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fifes	fife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	sounded	sound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
12	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	heralds	herald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	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 | **order** | past | King | the drums and fifes and trumpets |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | to-infinitive · passive | King *not said here* |  |  | the town |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: throughout town=Location |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the heralds |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **finger** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fit** | would | a certain ring | finger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 6 | **marry** | should | the heralds *not said here* | the heir |  |  |  | to the throne | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent heir=Patient to throne=Co-Patient |

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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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