--- title: Messengers were sent to all the gayest and most refined Courts, part… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Messengers were sent to all the gayest and most refined Courts, particularly to the Court of France, to seek out everything rare and precious to adorn the Princess, although her beauty was so perfect that nothing she wore could make her look prettier. Who acts: beauty, Princess, nothing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, Princess, nothing), 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:pg503:6:3 # text = Messengers were sent to all the gayest and most refined Courts, particularly to the Court of France, to seek out everything rare and precious to adorn the Princess, although her beauty was so perfect that nothing she wore could make her look prettier. 1 Messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 5 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 7 gayest gay ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 10 advmod _ _ 10 refined refine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 Courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 particularly particularly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 21 obj _ _ 24 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 adorn adorn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 although although SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 39 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 43 nsubj _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 prettier pretty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past · passive | | Messengers | | all gayest refined Courts | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to court=Destination | | 2 | **refine** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **seek out** | to-infinitive | | everything | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 4 | **adorn** | to-infinitive | | | the Princess | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Destination | | 5 | **is** | past | Princess's beauty | | | | | perfect *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **wear** | past | Princess | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **make** | could | nothing | Princess | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **look** | infinitive | Princess *not said here* | | | | | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/4/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/)