--- title: The King and Queen, overjoyed to know that Donkey-skin was a great P… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The King and Queen, overjoyed to know that Donkey-skin was a great Princess redoubled their caresses, but the Prince was even more sensible of her virtue, and his love increased as the Fairy unfolded her tale. Who acts: Donkey skin, King, Prince, love. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Donkey skin, King, Prince, love), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg29021:725`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:15:192 # text = The King and Queen, overjoyed to know that Donkey-skin was a great Princess redoubled their caresses, but the Prince was even more sensible of her virtue, and his love increased as the Fairy unfolded her tale. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 overjoyed overjoy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 10 Donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 17 redoubled redouble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 caresses caress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 virtue virtue NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 increased increase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 unfolded unfold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overjoy** | participle | | the King and Queen *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | past | Donkey skin | a great Princess | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **redouble** | past | the King and Queen | Princes's caresses | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent caress=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | the Prince | | | | | of Princess's virtue; sensible *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **increase** | past | King's love | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **unfold** | past | the Fairy | Princess's tale | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tale=Patient | | 8 | **caress** | | Princes *= prince* | | | | | | nom caress «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **love** | | King | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **tell** | | Princess | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/191/) - next →: [sentence 193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/193/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)