--- title: Every day charming portraits were brought him, but none gave promise… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Every day charming portraits were brought him, but none gave promise of the beauty of his late Queen; instead of coming to a decision he brooded over his sorrow until in the end his reason left him. Who acts: none, King, reason. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/59/) [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/) / 59 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 59 Every day charming portraits were brought him, but none gave promise of the beauty of his late Queen; instead of coming to a decision he brooded over his sorrow until in the end his reason left him. **Who acts:** none, King, reason · **What happens:** charm, bring, give, come, brood, leave · **To what, where:** charming portraits, promise, decision, sorrow, King, end 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 (none, King, reason), 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:pg29021:15:59 # text = Every day charming portraits were brought him, but none gave promise of the beauty of his late Queen; instead of coming to a decision he brooded over his sorrow until in the end his reason left him. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 charming charm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 portraits portrait NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 23 mark _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 brooded brood VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **charm** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **bring** | past · passive | | charming portraits | | | day | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | | 3 | **give** | past | none | promise of the beauty of King's late Queen | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 4 | **come** | gerund | | | | a decision | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to decision=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **brood** | past | King | a decision *not said here* | | King's sorrow | | | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | past | King's reason | King | | | in the end | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in end=Location | | 7 | **promise** | | | the beauty of King's late Queen | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **sorrow** | | King | | | | | | nom sorrow «feeling 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/60/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)