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title: The grace, delicacy, urbanity, tenderness, and humour which went to… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The grace, delicacy, urbanity, tenderness, and humour which went to the making of Perrault's stories must, it seems, have also gone in somewhat similar proportions to the making of these delightful drawings. Who acts: humour, grace, stories, delightful drawings. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Cha
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 143

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The grace, delicacy, urbanity, tenderness, and humour which went to the making of Perrault's stories must, it seems, have also gone in somewhat similar proportions to the making of these delightful drawings.

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**Who acts:** humour, grace, stories, delightful drawings · **What happens:** go, seem, make · **To what, where:** making, similar proportions

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (humour, grace, stories, delightful drawings), 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:pg29021:6:143
# text = The grace, delicacy, urbanity, tenderness, and humour which went to the making of Perrault's stories must, it seems, have also gone in somewhat similar proportions to the making of these delightful drawings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	delicacy	delicacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	urbanity	urbanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	proportions	proportion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
38	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	drawings	drawing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | humour |  |  | the making of Perrault's stories |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to making=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the grace and delicacy and urbanity and tenderness and humour |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present · perfect | the grace and delicacy and urbanity and tenderness and humour *not said here* |  |  | similar proportions |  | to the making of this delightful drawings | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to making=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **make** |  | Perrault's stories |  |  |  |  |  | nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **make** |  | this delightful drawings |  |  |  |  |  | nom making «act intransitive»: of=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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