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title: Consider well what things can bring thee joy and prosperity, and as… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Consider well what things can bring thee joy and prosperity, and as thy happiness is at stake, be not over-hasty, but revolve the matter in thy mind." Who acts: you, things, happiness, thy. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tre
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 183

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Consider well what things can bring thee joy and prosperity, and as thy happiness is at stake, be not over-hasty, but revolve the matter in thy mind."

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**Who acts:** you, things, happiness, thy · **What happens:** consider, bring, be, not be, revolve, mind · **To what, where:** thee, matter, mind

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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 (you, things, happiness, thy), 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:pg29021:14:183
# text = Consider well what things can bring thee joy and prosperity, and as thy happiness is at stake, be not over-hasty, but revolve the matter in thy mind."
1	Consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	over-hasty	over-hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	revolve	revolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | can | things | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | thy happiness |  |  |  |  | as stake | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | over-hasty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **revolve** | infinitive |  | the matter |  | thy mind |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent matter=Theme |
| 6 | **mind** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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