--- title: Then with loud peals of laughter they led her to the Prince, who was… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Then with loud peals of laughter they led her to the Prince, who was astonished at the garb of this girl, and dared not believe that it was she whom he had seen so majestic and so beautiful. Who acts: visitors, Prince. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/183/) [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/) / 183 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 183 Then with loud peals of laughter they led her to the Prince, who was astonished at the garb of this girl, and dared not believe that it was she whom he had seen so majestic and so beautiful. **Who acts:** visitors, Prince · **What happens:** lead, be, not dare, not believe, see · **To what, where:** joy, garb · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (visitors, Prince), 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:pg29021:15:183 # text = Then with loud peals of laughter they led her to the Prince, who was astonished at the garb of this girl, and dared not believe that it was she whom he had seen so majestic and so beautiful. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 peals peal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 garb garb NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 27 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 ccomp _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 majestic majestic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | visitors *= visitor* | joy | | | then | with loud peals; of laughter; to the Prince | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme of laughter=Destination | | 2 | **is** | past | the Prince | | | the garb of this girl | | astonished *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **dare** | past | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **believe** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** | past · perfect · passive | | garb | | | | majestic *property* | tree rules | 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 182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/182/) - next →: [sentence 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/184/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)