--- title: "I cannot comprehend, Madam, how a person so beautiful as you are, c… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "I cannot comprehend, Madam, how a person so beautiful as you are, can be so sorrowful as you seem to be; for tho' I can boast of having seen infinite numbers of ladies exquisitely charming, I can say that I never beheld any one whose beauty approaches yours." Who acts: I, you, tho, beauty. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, tho, beauty), 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:pg29021:12:54 # text = "I cannot comprehend, Madam, how a person so beautiful as you are, can be so sorrowful as you seem to be; for tho' I can boast of having seen infinite numbers of ladies exquisitely charming, I can say that I never beheld any one whose beauty approaches yours." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 comprehend comprehend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Madam Madam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 sorrowful sorrowful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 tho tho PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 boast boast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 34 of of SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 aux _ _ 36 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 46 advcl _ _ 37 infinite infinite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 exquisitely exquisitely ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 charming charm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 47 that that SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 48 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 49 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 50 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 ccomp _ _ 51 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 52 det _ _ 52 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 53 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 55 approaches approach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 acl:relcl _ _ 56 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **comprehend** *in a quote* | can | I | Madam | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer madam=Stimulus | | 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | can | I *not said here* | | | | | sorrowful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **boast** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | tho | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **see** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect | I *not said here* | infinite numbers of ladies | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | | 8 | **charm** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | exquisitely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **not** **behold** *in a quote* | past | I | any one | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 11 | **approach** *in a quote* | present | beauty | yours | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent your=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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/55/) - ↑ back to [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/)