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title: Fanny was a comely young woman, and blest with good looks, and truth… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Fanny was a comely young woman, and blest with good looks, and truth to tell, this new ornament did not set off her beauty. Who acts: Fanny, new ornament. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 16

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Fanny was a comely young woman, and blest with good looks, and truth to tell, this new ornament did not set off her beauty.

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**Who acts:** Fanny, new ornament · **What happens:** be, tell, not set off · **To what, where:** comely young woman, beauty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fanny, new ornament), 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:pg29021:15:16
# text = Fanny was a comely young woman, and blest with good looks, and truth to tell, this new ornament did not set off her beauty.
1	Fanny	Fanny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	comely	comely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	blest	blest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fanny | a comely young woman and truth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Fanny *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with good looks | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Fanny *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **set off** | past · do-support | this new ornament | ornament's beauty |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition beauty=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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