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title: _From this short story easy we discern What conduct all young people… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _From this short story easy we discern What conduct all young people ought to learn. Who acts: we, young people. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 44

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\_From this short story easy we discern What conduct all young people ought to learn.

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**Who acts:** we, young people · **What happens:** discern, conduct, learn

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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 (we, young people), 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:pg29021:7:44
# text = _From this short story easy we discern What conduct all young people ought to learn.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	From	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	discern	discern	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	conduct	conduct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discern** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **conduct** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | ought | young people |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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