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title: And always proves, alas! too dear the prize, Which, in the moment of… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: And always proves, alas! too dear the prize, Which, in the moment of possession, dies. Who acts: dear prize. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 62

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And always proves, alas! too dear the prize, Which, in the moment of possession, dies.

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**Who acts:** dear prize · **What happens:** prove, die

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear prize), 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:pg29021:8:62
# text = And always proves, alas! too dear the prize, Which, in the moment of possession, dies.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	proves	prove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | present |  |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | present | the dear prize |  |  |  | moment |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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