The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 58

The youngest, who was the very picture of her father, for courtesy and sweetness of temper, was withal one of the most beautiful girls ever seen.

Who acts: youngest picture · What happens: be, see · To what, where: youngest picture, withal one, beautiful girls

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, 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 picture), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 picture	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 picture	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 picture	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 picture	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 picture	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 picture	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 picture	advmod
8	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 one	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 picture	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 courtesy	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 courtesy	case
14	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 picture	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sweetness	cc
16	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 courtesy	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 temper	case
18	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sweetness	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 picture	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	cop
21	withal	withal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	amod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 girls	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 girls	det
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 beautiful	advmod
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 girls	amod
27	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 seen	advmod
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 girls	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the youngest picture and courtesy and sweetness of temper		of living's father	tree rules
2	is a	past	the youngest picture and courtesy and sweetness of temper	withal one		of the beautiful girls	tree rules
3	see	participle		the beautiful girls not said here	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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