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title: "TRUTH TO TELL, THIS NEW ORNAMENT DID NOT SET OFF HER BEAUTY" 133 — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "TRUTH TO TELL, THIS NEW ORNAMENT DID NOT SET OFF HER BEAUTY" 133 Who acts: NEW ORNAMENT. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, sentence 9

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"TRUTH TO TELL, THIS NEW ORNAMENT DID NOT SET OFF HER BEAUTY" 133

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**Who acts:** NEW ORNAMENT · **What happens:** tell, not set off · **To what, where:** BEAUTY · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg29021:5:9
# text = "TRUTH TO TELL, THIS NEW ORNAMENT DID NOT SET OFF HER BEAUTY" 133
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	TRUTH	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
3	TO	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	TELL	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	THIS	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	NEW	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ORNAMENT	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	DID	did	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	SET	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	OFF	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	HER	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	BEAUTY	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	133	133	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this NEW ORNAMENT *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **set off** *in a quote* |  | this NEW ORNAMENT | ORNAMENT's BEAUTY |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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