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title: In short, every thing succeeded so well, that the youngest daughter… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In short, every thing succeeded so well, that the youngest daughter began to think the master of the house not to have a beard so very blue, and that he was a mighty civil gentleman. Who acts: thing, youngest daughter, master. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 117

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In short, every thing succeeded so well, that the youngest daughter began to think the master of the house not to have a beard so very blue, and that he was a mighty civil gentleman.

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**Who acts:** thing, youngest daughter, master · **What happens:** succeed, begin, think, not have, be · **To what, where:** short, beard, mighty civil gentleman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, youngest daughter, master), 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:pg29021:7:117
# text = In short, every thing succeeded so well, that the youngest daughter began to think the master of the house not to have a beard so very blue, and that he was a mighty civil gentleman.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | every thing |  |  | short |  | well *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in short=Eventuality |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the youngest daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the youngest daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **have** | to-infinitive | the master of the house | a beard |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | master | a mighty civil gentleman |  |  |  |  | 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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