--- title: Be this as it may, at length she died, and never did husband make so… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Be this as it may, at length she died, and never did husband make so much lamentation; the King wept and sobbed day and night, and the punctilious fulfilment of the rites of widower-hood, even the smallest, was his sole occupation. Who acts: perchance, length, King, punctilious fulfilment. A sentenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/49/) [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/) / 49 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 49 Be this as it may, at length she died, and never did husband make so much lamentation; the King wept and sobbed day and night, and the punctilious fulfilment of the rites of widower-hood, even the smallest, was his sole occupation. **Who acts:** perchance, length, King, punctilious fulfilment · **What happens:** be, die, make, weep, sob, fulfil · **To what, where:** length, much lamentation, sole occupation, rites 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 (perchance, length, King, punctilious fulfilment), 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:pg29021:15:49 # text = Be this as it may, at length she died, and never did husband make so much lamentation; the King wept and sobbed day and night, and the punctilious fulfilment of the rites of widower-hood, even the smallest, was his sole occupation. 1 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 nsubj _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 lamentation lamentation NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 sobbed sob VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 punctilious punctilious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 fulfilment fulfilment NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 rites rite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 widower widower NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 hood hood NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 even even ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 48 sole sole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 occupation occupation NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | may · infinitive | perchance | | | length | | | tree rules | | 2 | **die** | past | length | length *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | past · do-support | length | much lamentation | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lamentation=Product | | 4 | **weep** | past | the King | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sob** | past | the King *not said here* | | | | day | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | the punctilious fulfilment of the rites | King's sole occupation | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fulfil** | | | the rites | | | | | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/50/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)