The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 27
_A great advantage 'tis, no doubt, to man, To have wit, courage, birth, good sense, and brain, And other such-like qualities, which we Receiv'd from heaven's kind hand, and destiny.
Who acts: great advantage, tis · What happens: tis, have · To what, where: wit
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 (great advantage, tis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 tis | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 advantage | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 advantage | amod |
| 4 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tis | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 tis | punct |
| 6 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 doubt | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 doubt | det |
| 9 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tis | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tis | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | To | to | PART | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 courage | punct |
| 18 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wit | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 birth | punct |
| 20 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wit | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sense | punct |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sense | amod |
| 23 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wit | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brain | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 brain | cc |
| 26 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wit | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 qualities | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 qualities | cc |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 qualities | amod |
| 30 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 like | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 such | punct |
| 32 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 qualities | amod |
| 33 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hand | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 hand | nsubj |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 hand | nsubj |
| 37 | Receiv | Receiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 hand | nsubj |
| 38 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 hand | aux |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 hand | case |
| 40 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 hand | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 heaven | case |
| 42 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hand | amod |
| 43 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 qualities | appos |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 destiny | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 destiny | cc |
| 46 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 hand | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tis | a great advantage | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | tis and no doubt and man | wit and courage and birth and brain | tree rules |
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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