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title: Overjoyed to find her thus all alone, he addressed himself to her wi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Overjoyed to find her thus all alone, he addressed himself to her with all imaginable politeness and respect. Who acts: many. 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 52

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Overjoyed to find her thus all alone, he addressed himself to her with all imaginable politeness and respect.

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** overjoy, find, address · **To what, where:** queen, many

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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 (many), 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:pg29021:12:52
# text = Overjoyed to find her thus all alone, he addressed himself to her with all imaginable politeness and respect.
1	Overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	politeness	politeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | queen |  |  |  | alone, thus *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **address** | past | many | many | queen |  |  | with all imaginable politeness and respect | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with politeness=Theme |

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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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