--- title: The King again sought out the most clever workmen and expressly comm… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The King again sought out the most clever workmen and expressly commanded them to make a dress the colour of the moon; and woe betide them if between the giving of the order and the bringing of the dress more than twenty-four hours should elapse. Who acts: King, woe, giving. A sentence of «The Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/75/) [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/) / 75 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 75 The King again sought out the most clever workmen and expressly commanded them to make a dress the colour of the moon; and woe betide them if between the giving of the order and the bringing of the dress more than twenty-four hours should elapse. **Who acts:** King, woe, giving · **What happens:** seek out, command, make, betide, give, bring · **To what, where:** clever workmen, workmen, dress · **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, woe, giving), 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:pg29021:15:75 # text = The King again sought out the most clever workmen and expressly commanded them to make a dress the colour of the moon; and woe betide them if between the giving of the order and the bringing of the dress more than twenty-four hours should elapse. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 workmen workman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 expressly expressly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 betide betide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 29 between between ADP IN _ 48 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 31 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 csubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bringing bring VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 42 than than ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 conj _ _ 46 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 47 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 elapse elapse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seek out** | past | the King | the clever workmen | | | again | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Theme | | 2 | **command** | past | the King *not said here* | workmen *= workman* | | | | expressly *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | a dress | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset dress=Beneficiary colour=Product | | 4 | **betide** | present | woe | workmen *= workman* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | gerund | | | | | | of the order | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **bring** | gerund | | | | | hour | of the dress | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of dress=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **elapse** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | giving | | | | | | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/76/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)