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title: However, he did not cease from continuing his way; a young and amoro… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: However, he did not cease from continuing his way; a young and amorous Prince is always valiant. Who acts: Scarce, young Prince. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3, sentence 13

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However, he did not cease from continuing his way; a young and amorous Prince is always valiant.

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**Who acts:** Scarce, young Prince · **What happens:** not cease, continue, be · **To what, where:** way

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarce, young Prince), 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:pg29021:9:13
# text = However, he did not cease from continuing his way; a young and amorous Prince is always valiant.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	amorous	amorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cease** | past · do-support | Scarce |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **continue** | gerund | Scarce *not said here* | Scarce's way |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | a young Prince |  |  |  |  | always, valiant *property* | tree rules |

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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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