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title: "You are so very pretty, my dear, so good and so mannerly, that I ca… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "You are so very pretty, my dear, so good and so mannerly, that I cannot help giving you a gift" (for this was a Fairy, who had taken the form of a poor country-woman, to see how far the civility and good manners of this pretty girl would go). " Who acts: You, good woman, this, Fairy. A sentence of 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 65

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"You are so very pretty, my dear, so good and so mannerly, that I cannot help giving you a gift" (for this was a Fairy, who had taken the form of a poor country-woman, to see how far the civility and good manners of this pretty girl would go). "

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**Who acts:** You, good woman, this, Fairy, I, civility · **What happens:** be, not help, give, take, see, go · **To what, where:** gift, you, form, poor country woman · **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 (You, good woman, this, Fairy), 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:pg29021:7:65
# text = "You are so very pretty, my dear, so good and so mannerly, that I cannot help giving you a gift" (for this was a Fairy, who had taken the form of a poor country-woman, to see how far the civility and good manners of this pretty girl would go). "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	mannerly	mannerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
22	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
41	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
42	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
48	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
49	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	60	advmod	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	civility	civility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	51	conj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	58	det	_	_
57	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
59	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | dear, pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **help** *in a quote* | can | the good woman *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **give** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | the good woman *= woman* *not said here* | a gift | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gift=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | for a Fairy | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | past · perfect | a Fairy | the form of a poor country woman |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **go** | would | the civility and good manners of this pretty girl |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **form** |  |  | a poor country woman |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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