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title: _A countenance whereon, by natures hand, Beauty is trac'd, also the… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _A countenance whereon, by natures hand, Beauty is trac'd, also the lively stain Of such complexion art can ne'er attain, With all these gifts hath not so much command On hearts, as hath one secret charm alone. Who acts: Beauty, countenance. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Cha
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 17

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\_A countenance whereon, by natures hand, Beauty is trac'd, also the lively stain Of such complexion art can ne'er attain, With all these gifts hath not so much command On hearts, as hath one secret charm alone.

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**Who acts:** Beauty, countenance · **What happens:** be, ne'er, attain, have · **To what, where:** trac 'd, much command, hearts, one secret charm

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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 (Beauty, countenance), 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:pg29021:14:17
# text = _A countenance whereon, by natures hand, Beauty is trac'd, also the lively stain Of such complexion art can ne'er attain, With all these gifts hath not so much command On hearts, as hath one secret charm alone.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
4	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	natures	nature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	trac	trac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'd	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stain	stain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	complexion	complexion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	ne'er	ne'er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	With	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
31	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	On	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
42	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Beauty | trac 'd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ne'er** | can | a countenance and natures hand and trac 'd and the lively stain of such complexion art |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attain** | infinitive | a countenance and natures hand and trac 'd and the lively stain of such complexion art *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | a countenance and natures hand and trac 'd and the lively stain of such complexion art *not said here* | much command |  | hearts |  | with all gifts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | one secret charm |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=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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