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title: They were mightily delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully bus… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: They were mightily delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully busy in chusing out such gowns, petticoats, and head-clothes as might best become them. Who acts: Misses, head clothes. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], wi
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 27

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They were mightily delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully busy in chusing out such gowns, petticoats, and head-clothes as might best become them.

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**Who acts:** Misses, head clothes · **What happens:** be, chus out, become · **To what, where:** invitation, such gowns, Misses

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Misses, head clothes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29021:11:27
# text = They were mightily delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully busy in chusing out such gowns, petticoats, and head-clothes as might best become them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	mightily	mightily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	chusing	chus	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gowns	gown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Misses *= miss* |  |  | this invitation |  | head clothes *obl*; delighted, mightily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Misses *= miss* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wonderfully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **chus out** | gerund | Misses *= miss* *not said here* | such gowns and petticoats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | might | head clothes *not said here* | Misses *= miss* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient they=Result |

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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.

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**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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