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title: _A great advantage 'tis, no doubt, to man, To have wit, courage, bir… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _A great advantage 'tis, no doubt, to man, To have wit, courage, birth, good sense, and brain, And other such-like qualities, which we Receiv'd from heaven's kind hand, and destiny. Who acts: great advantage, tis. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took U
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 27

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\_A great advantage 'tis, no doubt, to man, To have wit, courage, birth, good sense, and brain, And other such-like qualities, which we Receiv'd from heaven's kind hand, and destiny.

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**Who acts:** great advantage, tis · **What happens:** tis, have · **To what, where:** wit

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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 (great advantage, tis), 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:pg29021:12:27
# text = _A great advantage 'tis, no doubt, to man, To have wit, courage, birth, good sense, and brain, And other such-like qualities, which we Receiv'd from heaven's kind hand, and destiny.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	TO	_	12	case	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	To	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
37	Receiv	Receiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tis** |  | a great advantage |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | tis and no doubt and man | wit and courage and birth and brain |  |  |  |  | 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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