The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 29

_Ah! so it is that miserable man, By nature fickle, blind, unwise, and rash, Oft fails to reap a harvest from great gifts Bestowed upon him by the heav'nly gods.

Who acts: Moral, rash, heav'nly · What happens: be, fail, not reap, bestow, god · To what, where: miserable man, harvest, great gifts

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moral, rash, heav'nly), 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	_	9 man	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 man	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	9 man	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 man	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 man	mark
8	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nature	punct
11	By	by	ADP	_	12 nature	case
12	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod
13	fickle	fickle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nature	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blind	punct
15	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fickle	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 unwise	punct
17	unwise	unwise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fickle	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fails	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fails	cc
20	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fails	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Oft	punct
22	Oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rash	conj
23	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 reap	mark
25	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fails	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 harvest	det
27	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reap	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 gifts	case
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gifts	amod
30	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reap	obl
31	Bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 gifts	acl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 Bestowed	obl
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	37 gods	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heav'nly	det
36	heav'nly	heav'nly	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gods	nsubj
37	gods	god	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 Bestowed	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Moral	miserable man		by nature	tree rules
2	fail	present	rash	miserable man not said here			tree rules
3	not reap	to-infinitive	rash not said here	a harvest	great gifts		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme from gift=Initial_Location
4	bestow	participle		great gifts not said here		upon rash	tree rules
5	god	present	the heav'nly				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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