--- title: The Princess, overjoyed at finding yet another avenue of escape; for… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess, overjoyed at finding yet another avenue of escape; for she thought that her father could never bring himself to sacrifice the ass, went to find him, and unfolded to him her latest desire. Who acts: Princess, father. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perraul --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/88/) [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/) / 88 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 88 The Princess, overjoyed at finding yet another avenue of escape; for she thought that her father could never bring himself to sacrifice the ass, went to find him, and unfolded to him her latest desire. **Who acts:** Princess, father · **What happens:** overjoy, think, not bring, sacrifice, go, find · **To what, where:** avenue, finding, father, ass, latest desire · **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 (Princess, father), 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:pg29021:15:88 # text = The Princess, overjoyed at finding yet another avenue of escape; for she thought that her father could never bring himself to sacrifice the ass, went to find him, and unfolded to him her latest desire. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 overjoyed overjoy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 finding finding NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 yet yet ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 avenue avenue NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 escape escape NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 sacrifice sacrifice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 unfolded unfold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 latest late ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 amod _ _ 39 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overjoy** | participle | the Princess *not said here* | another avenue of escape | | finding | yet | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **bring** | could | Princess's father | father | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 4 | **sacrifice** | to-infinitive | Princess's father *not said here* | the ass | | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ass=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | father | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 7 | **unfold** | participle | the Princess *not said here* | Princess's latest desire | father | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent desire=Patient to he=Result | | 8 | **desire** | | Princess | | | | | | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/89/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)