The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 24

The fairies' gift of greatest worth Is grace of bearing, not high birth; Without this gift we'll miss the prize; Possession gives us wings to rise.

Who acts: gift, we, Possession, fairies · What happens: be, miss, give, rise, gift · To what, where: grace, prize, wings, greatest worth

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gift, we, Possession, fairies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairies	det
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gift	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 fairies	case
4	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grace	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 worth	case
6	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 worth	amod
7	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gift	nmod
8	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grace	cop
9	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 bearing	case
11	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grace	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 birth	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 birth	advmod
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 birth	amod
15	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bearing	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 gift	punct
17	Without	without	ADP	_	19 gift	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 gift	det
19	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grace	conj
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 miss	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 miss	aux
22	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 gift	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prize	det
24	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 miss	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 gives	punct
26	Possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gives	nsubj
27	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grace	parataxis
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 gives	iobj
29	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gives	iobj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 rise	mark
31	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 gives	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grace	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fairies's gift of greatest worth	grace and this gift		of bearing and high birth	tree rules
2	miss	future	we	the prize			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus
3	give	present	Possession		wings		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient wing=Theme
4	rise	to-infinitive	Possession not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gift		the fairies	greatest worth			nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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.

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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