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title: _At many children parents don't repine, If they are handsome; in the… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _At many children parents don't repine, If they are handsome; in their judgment shine; Polite in carriage are, in body strong, Graceful in mien, and elegant in tongue. Who acts: parents. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree a
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 166

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\_At many children parents don't repine, If they are handsome; in their judgment shine; Polite in carriage are, in body strong, Graceful in mien, and elegant in tongue.

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** not repine, be · **To what, where:** carriage

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents), 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:pg29021:14:166
# text = _At many children parents don't repine, If they are handsome; in their judgment shine; Polite in carriage are, in body strong, Graceful in mien, and elegant in tongue.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	repine	repine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	mien	mien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **repine** | present · do-support | parents |  |  |  |  | at many children | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | carriage |  | polite *property* | tree rules |

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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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