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title: Yet it offered one advantage, that as it hung right before her mouth… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet it offered one advantage, that as it hung right before her mouth, it would thus effectively curb her speech. Who acts: beauty, ornament. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 17

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Yet it offered one advantage, that as it hung right before her mouth, it would thus effectively curb her speech.

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**Who acts:** beauty, ornament · **What happens:** offer, hang, curb, speak · **To what, where:** one advantage, that, mouth, speech · **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 (beauty, 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:pg29021:15:17
# text = Yet it offered one advantage, that as it hung right before her mouth, it would thus effectively curb her speech.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	effectively	effectively	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	curb	curb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | beauty | one advantage |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | past | beauty | that |  | ornament's mouth |  | right *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme before mouth=Destination |
| 3 | **curb** | would | beauty | ornament's speech |  |  |  | effectively, thus *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient |
| 4 | **speak** |  | ornament |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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