--- title: The young Princess, who was virtuous and chaste, threw herself at th… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The young Princess, who was virtuous and chaste, threw herself at the feet of the King her father and conjured him, with all the eloquence she could command, not to constrain her to consent to his unnatural desire. Who acts: young Princess, Princess, King. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles P --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/61/) [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/) / 61 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 61 The young Princess, who was virtuous and chaste, threw herself at the feet of the King her father and conjured him, with all the eloquence she could command, not to constrain her to consent to his unnatural desire. **Who acts:** young Princess, Princess, King · **What happens:** be, throw, conjure, command, not constrain, consent · **To what, where:** Princess, feet, King · **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 (young Princess, Princess, 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:pg29021:15:61 # text = The young Princess, who was virtuous and chaste, threw herself at the feet of the King her father and conjured him, with all the eloquence she could command, not to constrain her to consent to his unnatural desire. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 virtuous virtuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 chaste chaste ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 conjured conjure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 28 det:predet _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 eloquence eloquence NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 command command VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 constrain constrain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 consent consent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 unnatural unnatural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the young Princess | | | | | virtuous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the young Princess *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **throw** | past | the young Princess | Princess | | the feet of the King | | | tree rules | | 4 | **conjure** | past | the young Princess *not said here* | King | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | | 5 | **command** | could | Princess | | | | | with all eloquence | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **constrain** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Princess | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Causer she=Patient clause=Goal | | 7 | **consent** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | | | | | to King's unnatural desire | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to desire=Theme | | 8 | **desire** | | King | | | | | | nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/62/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)