--- title: The youngest gave her for gift, that she should be the most beautifu… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The youngest gave her for gift, that she should be the most beautiful person in the world; the next, that she should have the wit of an angel; the third, that she should have a wonderful grace in every thing she did; the fourth, that she should dance perfectly well; the fifth, that she should sing l --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/) / 81 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 81 The youngest gave her for gift, that she should be the most beautiful person in the world; the next, that she should have the wit of an angel; the third, that she should have a wonderful grace in every thing she did; the fourth, that she should dance perfectly well; the fifth, that she should sing like a nightingale; and the sixth, that she should play upon all kinds of music to the utmost perfection. **Who acts:** youngest, Princess · **What happens:** give, be, have, do, dance, sing · **To what, where:** sixth, Princess, beautiful person, world, wit, wonderful grace This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29021:8:81 # text = The youngest gave her for gift, that she should be the most beautiful person in the world; the next, that she should have the wit of an angel; the third, that she should have a wonderful grace in every thing she did; the fourth, that she should dance perfectly well; the fifth, that she should sing like a nightingale; and the sixth, that she should play upon all kinds of music to the utmost perfection. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 10 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 14 advmod _ _ 14 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; 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; PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 sixth sixth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 73 , , PUNCT , _ 77 punct _ _ 74 that that SCONJ IN _ 77 mark _ _ 75 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 77 nsubj _ _ 76 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 77 aux _ _ 77 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 72 acl:relcl _ _ 78 upon upon ADP IN _ 80 case _ _ 79 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 80 det _ _ 80 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 77 obl _ _ 81 of of ADP IN _ 82 case _ _ 82 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 80 nmod _ _ 83 to to ADP IN _ 86 case _ _ 84 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 86 det _ _ 85 utmost utmost ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 86 amod _ _ 86 perfection perfection NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 87 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the youngest | the sixth | Princess | | | for gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient sixth=Theme for gift=Asset | | 2 | **is a** | should | Princess | the beautiful person | | the world | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | should | Princess | the wit of a angel | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | | 4 | **have** | should | Princess | a wonderful grace | | every thing | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Patient | | 5 | **do** | past | Princess | every thing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 6 | **dance** | should | Princess | | | | | well *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | should | Princess | | | | | like a nightingale | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 8 | **play** | should | Princess | the sixth *not said here* | | | | upon all kinds of music; to the utmost perfection | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixth=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/82/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/)