--- title: Now this Druid, less religious than ambitious, sacrificed the cause… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Now this Druid, less religious than ambitious, sacrificed the cause of innocence and virtue to the favour of so great a monarch, and instead of trying to restore the King to his right mind, he encouraged him in his delusion. Who acts: Druid, King. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/63/) [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/) / 63 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 63 Now this Druid, less religious than ambitious, sacrificed the cause of innocence and virtue to the favour of so great a monarch, and instead of trying to restore the King to his right mind, he encouraged him in his delusion. **Who acts:** Druid, King · **What happens:** sacrifice, try, restore, encourage, cause, favour · **To what, where:** cause, favour, King, right mind, Druid, delusion 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 (Druid, 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:pg29021:15:63 # text = Now this Druid, less religious than ambitious, sacrificed the cause of innocence and virtue to the favour of so great a monarch, and instead of trying to restore the King to his right mind, he encouraged him in his delusion. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 Druid druid NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 religious religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ambitious ambitious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 sacrificed sacrifice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 innocence innocence NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 virtue virtue NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 29 mark _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 encouraged encourage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 delusion delusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sacrifice** | past | this Druid | the cause of innocence and virtue | the favour of a great monarch | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Theme to favour=Recipient | | 2 | **try** | gerund | this Druid *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **restore** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this Druid *not said here* | the King | King's right mind | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Theme to mind=Recipient | | 4 | **encourage** | past | King | Druid | | King's delusion | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **cause** | | | innocence and virtue | | | | | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **favour** | | | a great monarch | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **mind** | | King | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **delude** | | King | | | | | | nom delusion «state 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/64/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)