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title: But sweet discourse more potent riches yields; Of higher value is th… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: But sweet discourse more potent riches yields; Of higher value is the pow'r it wields. Who acts: pow'r. 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 99

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But sweet discourse more potent riches yields; Of higher value is the pow'r it wields.

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**Who acts:** pow'r · **What happens:** be, wield · **To what, where:** pow'r

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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 (pow'r), 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:pg29021:7:99
# text = But sweet discourse more potent riches yields; Of higher value is the pow'r it wields.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	discourse	discourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	potent	potent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	yields	yield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pow'r	pow'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wields	wield	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the pow'r |  |  |  | of higher value | tree rules |
| 2 | **wield** | present | pow'r | the pow'r *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pow'r=Theme |

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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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