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title: Tis nature's way that ladies fair Should yearn conjugal joys to shar… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis nature's way that ladies fair Should yearn conjugal joys to share; And so I've not the heart to preach A moral that's beyond their reach. Who acts: Tis way, I, moral. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], with its dependency tree and
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 37

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Tis nature's way that ladies fair Should yearn conjugal joys to share; And so I've not the heart to preach A moral that's beyond their reach.

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**Who acts:** Tis way, I, moral · **What happens:** fair, yearn, share, not heart, preach, be · **To what, where:** conjugal joys, moral

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tis way, I, moral), 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:pg29021:10:37
# text = Tis nature's way that ladies fair Should yearn conjugal joys to share; And so I've not the heart to preach A moral that's beyond their reach.
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fair	fair	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	yearn	yearn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	conjugal	conjugal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	joys	joy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	preach	preach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fair** | present | nature's Tis way |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yearn** | should | nature's Tis way | conjugal joys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | nature's Tis way *not said here* | conjugal joys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **heart** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **preach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | nature's Tis way *not said here* | a moral |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moral=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | present | a moral |  |  |  |  | beyond ladies's reach | tree rules |

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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 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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