--- title: Now, she loved the Prince, and, as true love is timorous and has no… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Now, she loved the Prince, and, as true love is timorous and has no vanity, she was in perpetual fear that some other lady would be found to have a finger as small as hers. Who acts: Princess, true love, perpetual fear, other lady. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/178/) [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/) / 178 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 178 Now, she loved the Prince, and, as true love is timorous and has no vanity, she was in perpetual fear that some other lady would be found to have a finger as small as hers. **Who acts:** Princess, true love, perpetual fear, other lady · **What happens:** love, be, have, find · **To what, where:** Prince, vanity, perpetual fear, other lady, finger 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 (Princess, true love, perpetual fear, other lady), 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:pg29021:15:178 # text = Now, she loved the Prince, and, as true love is timorous and has no vanity, she was in perpetual fear that some other lady would be found to have a finger as small as hers. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 timorous timorous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 vanity vanity NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 perpetual perpetual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 hers her PRON PRP Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | past | Princess | the Prince | | | now | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | true love | | | | | timorous *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | true love *not said here* | no vanity | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanity=Patient | | 4 | **is** | past | Princess | | | perpetual fear | | | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | would · passive | perpetual fear *not said here* | some other lady | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | some other lady *not said here* | a finger | | | | small *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | 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 177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/177/) - next →: [sentence 179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/179/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)