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title: Since she knew that they were seeking the owner of the right finger… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Since she knew that they were seeking the owner of the right finger on which to set her ring, some impulse had moved her to arrange her hair with great care, and to put on her beautiful silver corsage, and the petticoat full of furbelows and silver lace studded with emeralds. Who acts: joy, Princes,
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 180

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Since she knew that they were seeking the owner of the right finger on which to set her ring, some impulse had moved her to arrange her hair with great care, and to put on her beautiful silver corsage, and the petticoat full of furbelows and silver lace studded with emeralds.

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**Who acts:** joy, Princes, impulse, petticoat · **What happens:** know, seek, set, move, arrange, put · **To what, where:** owner, ring, right finger, joy, hair, beautiful silver corsage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (joy, Princes, impulse, petticoat), 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:pg29021:15:180
# text = Since she knew that they were seeking the owner of the right finger on which to set her ring, some impulse had moved her to arrange her hair with great care, and to put on her beautiful silver corsage, and the petticoat full of furbelows and silver lace studded with emeralds.
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	impulse	impulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	corsage	corsage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
46	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	furbelows	furbelow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	conj	_	_
51	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
52	studded	stud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **know** | past | joy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **seek** | past · progressive | Princes *= prince* | the owner of the right finger |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | Princes *= prince* *not said here* | joy's ring |  | the right finger |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on which=Destination |
| 4 | **move** | past · perfect | some impulse | joy |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result |
| 5 | **arrange** | to-infinitive | some impulse *not said here* | joy's hair |  |  |  | with great care | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Patient with care=Instrument |
| 6 | **put** | to-infinitive | joy *not said here* |  |  | joy's beautiful silver corsage |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on corsage=Destination |
| 7 | **lace** |  | the petticoat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **stud** | participle |  | full lace *not said here* |  |  |  | with emeralds | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with emerald=Theme |

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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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