--- title: The young Princess, beside herself with misery, at last bethought he… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The young Princess, beside herself with misery, at last bethought her of the Lilac-fairy, her godmother; determined to consult her, she set out that same night in a pretty little carriage drawn by a great sheep who knew all the roads. Who acts: young Princess, Princess, great sheep. A sentence of «T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/64/) [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/) / 64 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 64 The young Princess, beside herself with misery, at last bethought her of the Lilac-fairy, her godmother; determined to consult her, she set out that same night in a pretty little carriage drawn by a great sheep who knew all the roads. **Who acts:** young Princess, Princess, great sheep · **What happens:** bethink, determine, consult, set out, draw, know · **To what, where:** reason, last, Princess, pretty little carriage, roads 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, great sheep), 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:pg29021:15:64 # text = The young Princess, beside herself with misery, at last bethought her of the Lilac-fairy, her godmother; determined to consult her, she set out that same night in a pretty little carriage drawn by a great sheep who knew all the roads. 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 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 beside beside ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 nmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 misery misery NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ _ 12 bethought bethink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 Lilac Lilac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 godmother godmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 determined determine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 consult consult VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 32 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 39 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 48 det:predet _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bethink** | past | the young Princess beside Princess | reason | | last | | of the Lilac fairy and Princess's godmother | tree rules | | 2 | **determine** | participle | the young Princess beside Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **consult** | to-infinitive | the young Princess beside Princess *not said here* | Princess | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **set out** | past | Princess | | | a pretty little carriage | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **draw** | participle | | a pretty little carriage *not said here* | | | | by a great sheep | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **know** | past | a great sheep | all roads | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/65/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)