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title: Roughly clothed, and living in the simplest way, the girls regretted… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Roughly clothed, and living in the simplest way, the girls regretted unceasingly the luxuries and amusements of their former life; only the youngest tried to be brave and cheerful. Who acts: youngest, girls. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its d
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 12

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Roughly clothed, and living in the simplest way, the girls regretted unceasingly the luxuries and amusements of their former life; only the youngest tried to be brave and cheerful.

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**Who acts:** youngest, girls · **What happens:** clothe, live, regret, try, be · **To what, where:** simplest way, luxuries

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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, girls), 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:pg503:14:12
# text = Roughly clothed, and living in the simplest way, the girls regretted unceasingly the luxuries and amusements of their former life; only the youngest tried to be brave and cheerful.
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	simplest	simple	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	regretted	regret	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	unceasingly	unceasingly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	luxuries	luxury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	amusements	amusement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	nsubj	_	_
27	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clothe** | participle | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | the youngest *not said here* |  |  | the simplest way |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 3 | **regret** | past | the girls | the luxuries of girls's former life and amusements |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer luxury=Stimulus |
| 4 | **try** | past | the youngest |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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