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title: _Civil behaviour costs indeed some pains, Requires of complaisance s… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _Civil behaviour costs indeed some pains, Requires of complaisance some little share; But soon or late its due reward it gains, And meets it often when we're not aware. Who acts: Civil behaviour, due reward, we, behaviour. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _tho
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 102

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\_Civil behaviour costs indeed some pains, Requires of complaisance some little share; But soon or late its due reward it gains, And meets it often when we're not aware.

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**Who acts:** Civil behaviour, due reward, we, behaviour · **What happens:** cost, gain, meet, not be, reward · **To what, where:** pains, reward

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Civil behaviour, due reward, we, behaviour), 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:pg29021:7:102
# text = _Civil behaviour costs indeed some pains, Requires of complaisance some little share; But soon or late its due reward it gains, And meets it often when we're not aware.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Requires	Requires	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	complaisance	complaisance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gains	gain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | present | Civil behaviour | some pains |  |  |  | indeed, soon *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme pain=Beneficiary share=Value |
| 2 | **gain** | present | behaviour's due reward |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **meet** | present | Civil behaviour *not said here* | reward |  |  |  | often *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | aware *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **reward** |  | behaviour |  |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event 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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