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title: That which gave them yet more uneasiness was, that the youngest was… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: That which gave them yet more uneasiness was, that the youngest was of a very puny constitution, and scarce ever spake a word, which made them take that for stupidity which was a sign of good sense. Who acts: That, more uneasiness, scarce, word. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 27

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That which gave them yet more uneasiness was, that the youngest was of a very puny constitution, and scarce ever spake a word, which made them take that for stupidity which was a sign of good sense.

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**Who acts:** That, more uneasiness, scarce, word, makers, stupidity · **What happens:** give, be, speak, make, take · **To what, where:** makers, word, that, sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, more uneasiness, scarce, word), 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:pg29021:14:27
# text = That which gave them yet more uneasiness was, that the youngest was of a very puny constitution, and scarce ever spake a word, which made them take that for stupidity which was a sign of good sense.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	uneasiness	uneasiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	puny	puny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	spake	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | That |  | makers *= maker* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | more uneasiness |  |  |  |  | of a puny constitution | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | scarce | a word |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | a word | makers *= maker* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive | makers *= maker* *not said here* | that |  |  |  | for stupidity | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for stupidity=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **is a** | past | stupidity | a sign |  |  |  | of good sense | 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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