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title: First the Princesses arrived, then the duchesses, and the marquises,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: First the Princesses arrived, then the duchesses, and the marquises, and the baronesses; but though they did all they could to make their fingers small, none could put on the ring. Who acts: Princesses, heralds, none. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards H
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 167

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First the Princesses arrived, then the duchesses, and the marquises, and the baronesses; but though they did all they could to make their fingers small, none could put on the ring.

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**Who acts:** Princesses, heralds, none · **What happens:** arrive, do, make, put · **To what, where:** duchesses, all, fingers, ring

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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 (Princesses, heralds, none), 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:pg29021:15:167
# text = First the Princesses arrived, then the duchesses, and the marquises, and the baronesses; but though they did all they could to make their fingers small, none could put on the ring.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	duchesses	duchess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	marquises	marquis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	baronesses	baroness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **arrive** | past | the Princesses | the duchesses |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | heralds *= herald* | all |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | could | heralds *= herald* | heralds's fingers |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product |
| 4 | **put** | could | none |  |  | the ring |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on ring=Destination |

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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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