--- title: The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old Fairy, caused… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old Fairy, caused immediately proclamations to be made, whereby every-body was forbidden, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle or to have so much as any spindle in their houses. Who acts: King. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg29021:8:87 # text = The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old Fairy, caused immediately proclamations to be made, whereby every-body was forbidden, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle or to have so much as any spindle in their houses. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 avoid avoid VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 misfortune misfortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 foretold foretell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 proclamations proclamation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 whereby whereby ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 forbidden forbid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 distaff distaff NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 spindle spindle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 obj _ _ 45 as as ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 47 det _ _ 47 spindle spindle NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | | the misfortune | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent misfortune=Location | | 2 | **foretell** | participle | | the misfortune *not said here* | | | | by the old Fairy | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cause** | past | the King | proclamations | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition proclamation=Patient | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | the King *not said here* | proclamations *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 5 | **forbid** | past · passive | | every body | | pain of death | | whereby *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **spin** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with a distaff and spindle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **have** | to-infinitive | | much | | | | as any spindle in King's houses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | | 8 | **pain** | | | death | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/88/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/)