The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 176

"Some men," he said, "have only to make known their desires, and straightway these are granted, and their every wish fulfilled; but it has availed me little to wish for ought, for the gods are deaf to the prayers of such as I."

Who acts: men, wish, gods, I. · What happens: say, have, make, know, grant, fulfil · To what, where: known desires, straightway, desire · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, wish, gods, I.), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 men	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 men	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 men	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 make	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 desires	amod
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 desires	nmod:poss
16	desires	desire	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 granted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 granted	cc
19	straightway	straightway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 granted	nsubj:pass
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 straightway	appos
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 granted	aux:pass
22	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fulfilled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fulfilled	cc
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wish	nmod:poss
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 wish	det
27	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fulfilled	nsubj
28	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 granted	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 availed	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 availed	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 availed	nsubj:pass
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 availed	aux
33	availed	avail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 availed	obj
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 availed	xcomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 wish	mark
37	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 availed	advcl
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 ought	case
39	ought	ought	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wish	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 deaf	punct
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 deaf	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 gods	det
43	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 deaf	nsubj
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 deaf	cop
45	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 availed	parataxis
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 prayers	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 prayers	det
48	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 deaf	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 I.	case
50	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	52 I.	case
51	as	as	ADP	_	50 such	fixed
52	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 prayers	nmod
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 deaf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	some men			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present				tree rules
3	make in a quote	to-infinitive		men's known desires		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset desire=Product
4	know in a quote	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	grant in a quote	present · passive		straightway		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
6	fulfil in a quote	participle	men's wish			tree rules
7	avail in a quote	present · perfect · passive		desire	little property	tree rules
8	wish in a quote	to-infinitive			for ought	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for ought=Theme
9	is in a quote	present	the gods		to the prayers of I.; deaf property	tree rules
10	desire in a quote		men = man			nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
11	wish in a quote		men = man			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
12	pray in a quote		I.			nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=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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