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title: The fairies' gift of greatest worth Is grace of bearing, not high bi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairies' gift of greatest worth Is grace of bearing, not high birth; Without this gift we'll miss the prize; Possession gives us wings to rise. Who acts: gift, we, Possession, fairies. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], with 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 24

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The fairies' gift of greatest worth Is grace of bearing, not high birth; Without this gift we'll miss the prize; Possession gives us wings to rise.

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**Who acts:** gift, we, Possession, fairies · **What happens:** be, miss, give, rise, gift · **To what, where:** grace, prize, wings, greatest worth

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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 (gift, we, Possession, fairies), 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:pg29021:12:24
# text = The fairies' gift of greatest worth Is grace of bearing, not high birth; Without this gift we'll miss the prize; Possession gives us wings to rise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	iobj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | the fairies's gift of greatest worth | grace and this gift |  |  |  | of bearing and high birth | tree rules |
| 2 | **miss** | future | we | the prize |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | present | Possession |  | wings |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient wing=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | to-infinitive | Possession *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **gift** |  | the fairies | greatest worth |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent 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:** «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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