The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 168

Such is the wretched world's curs'd way; and yet Sometimes this urchin whom despis'd we see, Through unforeseen events doth honour get, And fortune bring to all his family.

Who acts: despis, urchin, way · What happens: be, see, do, get, bring · To what, where: urchin, unforeseen events, family

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 (despis, urchin, way), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curs	amod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 curs	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
4	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 world	amod
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curs	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 world	case
7	curs	cur	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 way	nmod:poss
8	'd	'd	PART	_	7 curs	case
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	nsubj:outer
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 doth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 doth	cc
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 Sometimes	advmod
13	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 doth	advmod
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 urchin	det
15	urchin	urchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 doth	nsubj
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 see	obj
17	despis	despi	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 see	nsubj
18	'd	'd	PART	_	17 despis	case
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
20	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 urchin	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 events	punct
22	Through	through	ADP	_	24 events	case
23	unforeseen	unforeseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 events	amod
24	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 see	obl
25	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bring	advcl
26	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	compound
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 doth	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bring	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 bring	cc
30	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	nsubj
31	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 family	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 family	det:predet
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 family	nmod:poss
35	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				'd the wretched world's Such curs	tree rules
2	see	present	despis	this urchin	unforeseen events		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	do	present	this urchin			sometimes property	tree rules
4	get	infinitive	this urchin not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	bring	infinitive	the wretched world's Such curs's way		fortune's family		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to family=Destination

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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