--- title: It is true also that their defects increased considerably with their… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: It is true also that their defects increased considerably with their age; the youngest visibly grew uglier and uglier, and the eldest became every day more and more stupid; she either made no answer at all to what was asked her, or said something very silly; she was with all this so unhandy, that sh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/) / 46 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 46 It is true also that their defects increased considerably with their age; the youngest visibly grew uglier and uglier, and the eldest became every day more and more stupid; she either made no answer at all to what was asked her, or said something very silly; she was with all this so unhandy, that she could not place four pieces of china upon the mantlepiece, without breaking one of them, nor drink a glass of water without spilling half of it upon her cloaths. **Who acts:** talk, defects, youngest, eldest, queen · **What happens:** be, increase, grow, become, make, ask · **To what, where:** answer, all, queen, something, one, glass · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (talk, defects, youngest, eldest), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:12:46 # text = It is true also that their defects increased considerably with their age; the youngest visibly grew uglier and uglier, and the eldest became every day more and more stupid; she either made no answer at all to what was asked her, or said something very silly; she was with all this so unhandy, that she could not place four pieces of china upon the mantlepiece, without breaking one of them, nor drink a glass of water without spilling half of it upon her cloaths. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 defects defect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 increased increase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 considerably considerably ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 nsubj _ _ 16 visibly visibly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 uglier ugly ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 uglier ugly ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 nsubj _ _ 25 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 35 advmod _ _ 35 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 obl _ _ 40 to to SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 advcl _ _ 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 48 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 47 obj _ _ 49 very very ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ; ; PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 52 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 53 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 cop _ _ 54 with with SCONJ IN _ 58 mark _ _ 55 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 56 det:predet _ _ 56 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 58 nsubj _ _ 57 so so ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 unhandy unhandy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 60 that that SCONJ IN _ 64 mark _ _ 61 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 62 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ _ 63 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 64 advmod _ _ 64 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 65 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 66 nummod _ _ 66 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 64 conj _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 68 china china NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nmod _ _ 69 upon upon ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 71 mantlepiece mantlepiece NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 72 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 73 without without SCONJ IN _ 74 mark _ _ 74 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 58 advcl _ _ 75 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 74 obj _ _ 76 of of ADP IN _ 77 case _ _ 77 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 75 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 78 , , PUNCT , _ 80 punct _ _ 79 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 80 cc _ _ 80 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 81 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 82 det _ _ 82 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 80 obj _ _ 83 of of ADP IN _ 84 case _ _ 84 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 82 nmod _ _ 85 without without SCONJ IN _ 86 mark _ _ 86 spilling spill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 80 advcl _ _ 87 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 86 obj _ _ 88 of of ADP IN _ 89 case _ _ 89 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 87 nmod _ _ 90 upon upon ADP IN _ 92 case _ _ 91 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 92 nmod:poss _ _ 92 cloaths cloath NOUN NNS Number=Plur 86 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 93 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | talk | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **increase** | participle | Princesses's defects | | | | with Princesses's age | considerably *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | past | the youngest | | | | | ugly, visibly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past | the eldest | | | | day | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **make** | past | queen | no answer | | all | | either *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive | | | queen | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen *not said here* | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 8 | **is** | past | queen | | | | | unhandy *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **not** **place** | could | queen | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **break** | gerund | queen *not said here* | one of Princesses | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient | | 11 | **drink** | infinitive | talk *not said here* | a glass of water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient | | 12 | **spill** | gerund | talk *not said here* | half of talk | | | | upon queen's cloaths | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location half=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/47/) - ↑ back to [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/)