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title: The youngest, who was the very picture of her father, for courtesy a… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngest, who was the very picture of her father, for courtesy and sweetness of temper, was withal one of the most beautiful girls ever seen. Who acts: youngest picture. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its dependency tree and
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 58

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The youngest, who was the very picture of her father, for courtesy and sweetness of temper, was withal one of the most beautiful girls ever seen.

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**Who acts:** youngest picture · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** youngest picture, withal one, beautiful girls

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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 (youngest picture), 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:pg29021:7:58
# text = The youngest, who was the very picture of her father, for courtesy and sweetness of temper, was withal one of the most beautiful girls ever seen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	withal	withal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the youngest picture and courtesy and sweetness of temper |  |  |  | of living's father | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the youngest picture and courtesy and sweetness of temper | withal one |  |  |  | of the beautiful girls | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | participle |  | the beautiful girls *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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