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title: Imagine his astonishment at seeing a Princess so beautiful and so ri… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine his astonishment at seeing a Princess so beautiful and so richly dressed, and withal of so noble and dignified a mien, that he took her to be a divinity. Who acts: you, astonishment, farm. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its depend
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 121

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Imagine his astonishment at seeing a Princess so beautiful and so richly dressed, and withal of so noble and dignified a mien, that he took her to be a divinity.

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**Who acts:** you, astonishment, farm · **What happens:** imagine, see, dress, take, be, astonish · **To what, where:** astonishment, Princess, divinity

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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 (you, astonishment, farm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg29021:665`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:15:121
# text = Imagine his astonishment at seeing a Princess so beautiful and so richly dressed, and withal of so noble and dignified a mien, that he took her to be a divinity.
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	withal	withal	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dignified	dignified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mien	mien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	divinity	divinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | farm's astonishment |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot astonishment=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | farm's astonishment *not said here* | a Princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dress** | participle | farm's astonishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | farm |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | farm *not said here* | a divinity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **astonish** |  | farm |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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