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title: But above all, young, growing misses fair, Whose orient rosy blooms… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: But above all, young, growing misses fair, Whose orient rosy blooms begin t'appear: Who, beauties in the fragrant spring of age, With pretty airs young hearts are apt t'engage. Who acts: Whose orient rosy blooms, apt t'engage, beauties. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 45

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But above all, young, growing misses fair, Whose orient rosy blooms begin t'appear: Who, beauties in the fragrant spring of age, With pretty airs young hearts are apt t'engage.

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**Who acts:** Whose orient rosy blooms, apt t'engage, beauties · **What happens:** grow, miss, begin, beauty, be · **To what, where:** all, t'appear, apt t'engage

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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 (Whose orient rosy blooms, apt t'engage, beauties), 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:pg29021:7:45
# text = But above all, young, growing misses fair, Whose orient rosy blooms begin t'appear: Who, beauties in the fragrant spring of age, With pretty airs young hearts are apt t'engage.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	above	above	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nmod	_	_
8	misses	miss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	Whose	whose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	orient	orient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	blooms	bloom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	t'appear	t'appear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	beauties	beauty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	With	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	airs	air	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	t'engage	t'engage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **miss** | present |  |  |  | all |  | fair *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **begin** | present | Whose orient rosy blooms | t'appear |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent t'appear=Eventuality |
| 4 | **beauty** |  | apt t'engage |  |  |  | spring |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | beauties and pretty airs and young hearts | apt t'engage |  |  |  |  | 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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