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title: “Why, the beautifullest lady you ever see, dressed right gay and ga'. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why, the beautifullest lady you ever see, dressed right gay and ga'. Who acts: you, beautifullest lady. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 31

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“Why, the beautifullest lady you ever see, dressed right gay and ga'.

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**Who acts:** you, beautifullest lady · **What happens:** see, dress · **To what, where:** beautifullest lady, right gay

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, beautifullest lady), 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:pg7439:15:31
# text = “Why, the beautifullest lady you ever see, dressed right gay and ga'.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beautifullest	beautifull	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ga	ga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | the beautifullest lady *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** *in a quote* | participle | the beautifullest lady *not said here* | right gay and ga |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gay=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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