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title: For thus (may ever truth prevail) We draw our moral from this tale. — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: For thus (may ever truth prevail) We draw our moral from this tale. Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 22

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For thus (may ever truth prevail) We draw our moral from this tale.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** prevail, draw · **To what, where:** truth, moral, tale

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg29021:12:22
# text = For thus (may ever truth prevail) We draw our moral from this tale.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	prevail	prevail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevail** | present | We *not said here* | truth |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | present | We | our moral |  | this tale |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent moral=Theme from tale=Initial\_Location |

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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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