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title: This quality, fair ladies, know Prevails much more (you'll find it s… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: This quality, fair ladies, know Prevails much more (you'll find it so) T'ingage and captivate a heart, Than a fine head dress'd up with art. Who acts: quality, you. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], with its dependency tree and 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 23

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This quality, fair ladies, know Prevails much more (you'll find it so) T'ingage and captivate a heart, Than a fine head dress'd up with art.

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**Who acts:** quality, you · **What happens:** know, find, captivate, ' up · **To what, where:** Prevails, Moral, heart, fine head dress

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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 (quality, you), 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:pg29021:12:23
# text = This quality, fair ladies, know Prevails much more (you'll find it so) T'ingage and captivate a heart, Than a fine head dress'd up with art.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Prevails	Prevail	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
18	T'ingage	T'ingage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	captivate	captivate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	Than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'd	'	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | this quality and fair ladies | Prevails |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer prevail=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | future | you | Moral |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme t'ingage=Attribute |
| 3 | **captivate** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a heart |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |
| 4 | **' up** | participle |  | a fine head dress *not said here* |  |  |  | with art | 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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