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title: The little baby was still more beautiful than before, and its clothe… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The little baby was still more beautiful than before, and its clothes were made of a sort of silvery gauze. Who acts: little baby. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 17

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The little baby was still more beautiful than before, and its clothes were made of a sort of silvery gauze.

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**Who acts:** little baby · **What happens:** be, make, sort · **To what, where:** clothes, silvery gauze

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little baby), 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:pg7439:46:17
# text = The little baby was still more beautiful than before, and its clothes were made of a sort of silvery gauze.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gauze	gauze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the little baby |  |  |  | still | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | silk's clothes |  |  |  | of a sort of silvery gauze | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | silvery gauze |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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