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title: _What in this little Tale we find, Is less a fable than real truth. — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _What in this little Tale we find, Is less a fable than real truth. Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 13

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\_What in this little Tale we find, Is less a fable than real truth.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** find, be · **To what, where:** little Tale

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\]. 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:pg29021:14:13
# text = _What in this little Tale we find, Is less a fable than real truth.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | we | this little Tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than real truth; less *property* | 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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