The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 189

Then, by a little movement which the Princess made, the skin fell from her shoulders and so enchanting was her guise, that the Prince, weak though he was, fell on his knees and held her so closely that she blushed.

Who acts: Princess, skin, King · What happens: make, fall, enchant, be, hold, blush · To what, where: little movement, shoulders, guise, knees, skin

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, skin, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 fell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 movement	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 movement	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 movement	amod
6	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 movement	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 movement	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 skin	det
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 shoulders	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoulders	nmod:poss
17	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fell	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 enchanting	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 enchanting	advmod
20	enchanting	enchant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fell	conj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 guise	cop
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 guise	nmod:poss
23	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 enchanting	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 weak	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 weak	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Prince	det
27	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 weak	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Prince	punct
29	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fell	conj
30	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 was	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 was	nsubj
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 weak	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fell	punct
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fell	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 knees	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 knees	nmod:poss
37	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fell	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 held	cc
39	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fell	conj
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 held	obj
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 closely	advmod
42	closely	closely	ADV	_	39 held	advmod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 blushed	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 blushed	nsubj
45	blushed	blush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 closely	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Princess	a little movement				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product
2	fall	past	the skin		skin's shoulders	then	by a little movement	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by movement=Extent from shoulder=Initial_State
3	enchant	gerund	the skin not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past		skin's guise				tree rules
5	be	past	King					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fall	past	the skin not said here		King's knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
7	hold	past	the skin not said here	skin			closely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	blush	past	skin					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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