--- title: He pleaded the vows he had made to the Queen, and defied his counsel… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: He pleaded the vows he had made to the Queen, and defied his counsellors to find a Princess more beautiful and better fashioned than was she, thinking this to be impossible. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/53/) [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/) / 53 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 53 He pleaded the vows he had made to the Queen, and defied his counsellors to find a Princess more beautiful and better fashioned than was she, thinking this to be impossible. **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** plead, make, defy, find, be, think · **To what, where:** vows, counsellors, Princess, this · **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 (King), 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:pg29021:15:53 # text = He pleaded the vows he had made to the Queen, and defied his counsellors to find a Princess more beautiful and better fashioned than was she, thinking this to be impossible. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pleaded plead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 vows vow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 defied defy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 counsellors counsellor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 21 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 30 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plead** *speech: request* | past | King | the vows | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past · perfect | King | | | | | to the Queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **defy** | past | King *not said here* | King's counsellors | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | a Princess | | | | beautiful *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | than Princess | tree rules | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | King *not said here* | this | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | impossible *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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/54/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)