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title: By good fortune the next day chanced to be a holiday, and so she had… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: By good fortune the next day chanced to be a holiday, and so she had leisure to tap for her chest with the fairy's wand, arrange her toilet, powder her beautiful hair and put on the lovely gown which was the colour of the weather; but the room was so small that the train could not be properly spread
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 113

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By good fortune the next day chanced to be a holiday, and so she had leisure to tap for her chest with the fairy's wand, arrange her toilet, powder her beautiful hair and put on the lovely gown which was the colour of the weather; but the room was so small that the train could not be properly spread out.

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**Who acts:** Princess, lovely gown, room · **What happens:** chance, be, have, arrange, powder, put · **To what, where:** holiday, leisure, toilet, beautiful hair, lovely gown, colour

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, lovely gown, room), 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:pg29021:15:113
# text = By good fortune the next day chanced to be a holiday, and so she had leisure to tap for her chest with the fairy's wand, arrange her toilet, powder her beautiful hair and put on the lovely gown which was the colour of the weather; but the room was so small that the train could not be properly spread out.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	chanced	chance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	powder	powder	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
55	so	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
57	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj:pass	_	_
60	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
61	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
62	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	aux:pass	_	_
63	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	advcl	_	_
65	out	out	ADP	RP	_	64	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** | participle |  |  |  |  | day | by good fortune | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by fortune=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a holiday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Princess | leisure |  |  |  | for Princess's chest with the fairy's wand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leisure=Patient |
| 4 | **arrange** | infinitive |  | Princess's toilet |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Product |
| 5 | **powder** | infinitive |  | Princess's beautiful hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 6 | **put** | participle |  |  |  | the lovely gown and the colour |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on gown=Destination |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the lovely gown and the colour | the colour |  |  |  | of the weather | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | the room |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **not** **spread out** | could · passive |  | the train |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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