The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 167

But if perchance an offspring prove but weak, Him they revile, laugh at, defraud and cheat.

Who acts: perchance, parents · What happens: prove, revile, laugh · To what, where: offspring, defraud

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perchance, parents), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 prove	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	3 perchance	mark
3	perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prove	nsubj
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 offspring	det
5	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prove	nsubj
6	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 weak	cc
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prove	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Him	punct
10	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 revile	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 revile	nsubj
12	revile	revile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 prove	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laugh	punct
14	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 revile	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 defraud	case
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 defraud	punct
17	defraud	defraud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laugh	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cheat	cc
19	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 defraud	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	prove	infinitive	perchance			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	revile	present	parents = parent	offspring		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	present	parents = parent not said here		defraud and cheat	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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