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title: The special qualities of this rare animal deserved the distinction,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The special qualities of this rare animal deserved the distinction, since nature had made it in so extraordinary a way that its litter, instead of being like that of other donkeys, was covered every morning with an abundance of beautiful golden crowns, and golden louis of every kind, which were coll
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 40

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The special qualities of this rare animal deserved the distinction, since nature had made it in so extraordinary a way that its litter, instead of being like that of other donkeys, was covered every morning with an abundance of beautiful golden crowns, and golden louis of every kind, which were collected daily.

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**Who acts:** special qualities, extraordinary way · **What happens:** deserve, make, be, cover, collect · **To what, where:** distinction, nature, extraordinary way, litter, golden louis

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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 (special qualities, extraordinary way), 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:pg29021:15:40
# text = The special qualities of this rare animal deserved the distinction, since nature had made it in so extraordinary a way that its litter, instead of being like that of other donkeys, was covered every morning with an abundance of beautiful golden crowns, and golden louis of every kind, which were collected daily.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
48	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
52	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
57	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | past | the special qualities of this rare animal | the distinction |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | nature |  | a extraordinary way |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | instead that; of other donkeys | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | past · passive | a extraordinary way *not said here* | nature's litter |  |  | morning | with a abundance of beautiful golden crowns | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with abundance=Theme |
| 5 | **collect** | past · passive |  | golden louis of every kind |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP 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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