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title: The Princess ran to him, and he recognised her at once and embraced… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess ran to him, and he recognised her at once and embraced her with great tenderness before she had time to throw herself on her knees. Who acts: Princess, King. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 200

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The Princess ran to him, and he recognised her at once and embraced her with great tenderness before she had time to throw herself on her knees.

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**Who acts:** Princess, King · **What happens:** run, recognise, embrace, have, throw · **To what, where:** King, Princess, knees

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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 (Princess, King), 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:pg29021:15:200
# text = The Princess ran to him, and he recognised her at once and embraced her with great tenderness before she had time to throw herself on her knees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the Princess |  | King |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
| 2 | **recognise** | past | King | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **embrace** | past | the Princess *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  | with great tenderness | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | Princess |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **throw** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Princess |  | Princess's knees |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on knee=Destination |

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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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