--- title: The King and the Queen, the chamberlains and all the courtiers were… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The King and the Queen, the chamberlains and all the courtiers were dumb-founded, when from beneath that black and dirty skin came a delicate little white and rose-pink hand, and the ring slipped without difficulty on to the prettiest little finger in the world. Who acts: delicate hand, ring. A sent --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/188/) [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/) / 188 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 188 The King and the Queen, the chamberlains and all the courtiers were dumb-founded, when from beneath that black and dirty skin came a delicate little white and rose-pink hand, and the ring slipped without difficulty on to the prettiest little finger in the world. **Who acts:** delicate hand, ring · **What happens:** found, come, slip · **To what, where:** King, black skin, prettiest little 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 (delicate hand, ring), 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:pg29021:15:188 # text = The King and the Queen, the chamberlains and all the courtiers were dumb-founded, when from beneath that black and dirty skin came a delicate little white and rose-pink hand, and the ring slipped without difficulty on to the prettiest little finger in the world. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 chamberlains chamberlain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 14 dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 founded found VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 20 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 22 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 28 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 35 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 41 without without ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 difficulty difficulty NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 prettiest pretty ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 48 amod _ _ 47 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **found** | past · passive | | the King and the Queen and the chamberlains and all courtiers | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **come** | past | a delicate hand | | | that black skin | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from skin=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **slip** | past | the ring | | | the prettiest little finger in the world | | without difficulty | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/187/) - next →: [sentence 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/189/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)