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title: The most beautiful thing of all, however, was a young girl who went… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The most beautiful thing of all, however, was a young girl who went about there, all alone. Who acts: beautiful thing, young girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 12

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The most beautiful thing of all, however, was a young girl who went about there, all alone.

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**Who acts:** beautiful thing, young girl · **What happens:** be, go about · **To what, where:** young girl

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful thing, young girl), 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:pg5615:27:12
# text = The most beautiful thing of all, however, was a young girl who went about there, all alone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 beautiful thing of all | a young girl |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go about** | past | a young girl |  |  | there |  | alone *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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