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title: _Beauty's to the sex a treasure, Still admir'd beyond all measure, A… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _Beauty's to the sex a treasure, Still admir'd beyond all measure, And never yet was any known, By still admiring, weary grown. Who acts: Beauty. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 19

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\_Beauty's to the sex a treasure, Still admir'd beyond all measure, And never yet was any known, By still admiring, weary grown.

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**Who acts:** Beauty · **What happens:** know, admire, grow, measure

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty), 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:pg29021:12:19
# text = _Beauty's to the sex a treasure, Still admir'd beyond all measure, And never yet was any known, By still admiring, weary grown.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	admir	admir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
29	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **admire** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **measure** |  | Beauty |  |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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