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title: But that rare quality call'd grace, Exceeds, by far, a handsome face… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: But that rare quality call'd grace, Exceeds, by far, a handsome face; Its lasting charms surpass the other, And this rich gift her kind godmother Bestow'd on Cinderilla fair, Whom she instructed with such care. Who acts: lasting charms, rich gift, Cinderilla. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charle
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 20

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But that rare quality call'd grace, Exceeds, by far, a handsome face; Its lasting charms surpass the other, And this rich gift her kind godmother Bestow'd on Cinderilla fair, Whom she instructed with such care.

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**Who acts:** lasting charms, rich gift, Cinderilla · **What happens:** surpass, bestow, instruct · **To what, where:** other, fair

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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 (lasting charms, rich gift, Cinderilla), 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:pg29021:12:20
# text = But that rare quality call'd grace, Exceeds, by far, a handsome face; Its lasting charms surpass the other, And this rich gift her kind godmother Bestow'd on Cinderilla fair, Whom she instructed with such care.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'd	'd	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Exceeds	exceeds	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lasting	lasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	surpass	surpass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	Bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surpass** | present | face's lasting charms | the other |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot other=Theme |
| 2 | **bestow** | infinitive | this rich gift |  |  | fair |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | Cinderilla |  |  |  |  | with such care | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |

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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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