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title: She gave to her such graceful mien, That she, thereby, became a queen. — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: She gave to her such graceful mien, That she, thereby, became a queen. Who acts: gift. 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 every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 21

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She gave to her such graceful mien, That she, thereby, became a queen.

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**Who acts:** gift · **What happens:** give, become · **To what, where:** such graceful mien, queen

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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 (gift), 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:pg29021:12:21
# text = She gave to her such graceful mien, That she, thereby, became a queen.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mien	mien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | gift |  | gift's such graceful mien |  |  | thereby *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mien=Recipient |
| 2 | **become** | past | gift *not said here* | a queen |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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