--- title: The Prince helped the Princess to rise, she was entirely dressed, an… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince helped the Princess to rise, she was entirely dressed, and very magnificently, but his Royal Highness took care not to tell her that she was dressed like his great grand-mother, and had a point-band peeping over a high collar; she looked not a bit the less beautiful and charming for all t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/9/26/) [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/) / [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/9/) / 26 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3, sentence 26 The Prince helped the Princess to rise, she was entirely dressed, and very magnificently, but his Royal Highness took care not to tell her that she was dressed like his great grand-mother, and had a point-band peeping over a high collar; she looked not a bit the less beautiful and charming for all that. **Who acts:** Prince, Royal Highness, point band, Princess · **What happens:** help, rise, dress, take, not tell, have · **To what, where:** Princess, care, point band · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Royal Highness, point band, Princess), 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:pg29021:9:26 # text = The Prince helped the Princess to rise, she was entirely dressed, and very magnificently, but his Royal Highness took care not to tell her that she was dressed like his great grand-mother, and had a point-band peeping over a high collar; she looked not a bit the less beautiful and charming for all that. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 magnificently magnificently ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 Royal Royal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Highness highness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 45 peeping peep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 acl _ _ 46 over over ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ; ; PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 51 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 53 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 58 advmod _ _ 58 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 ccomp _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 charming charm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 58 conj _ _ 61 for for ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 63 det _ _ 63 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | past | the Prince | | the Princess | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Beneficiary | | 2 | **rise** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dress** | past · passive | | Princess | | | | entirely, magnificently *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **take** | past | Prince's Royal Highness | care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Prince's Royal Highness *not said here* | | Princess | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 6 | **dress** | past · passive | | Princess | | | | like Prince's great grand mother | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **have** | past | the Prince *not said here* | a point band | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient | | 8 | **peep** | gerund | a point band *not said here* | | | | | over a high collar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over collar=Theme | | 9 | **not** **look** | past | Princess | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 10 | **charm** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | | | | | for that | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/9/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/9/27/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/9/)