The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 102

_Civil behaviour costs indeed some pains, Requires of complaisance some little share; But soon or late its due reward it gains, And meets it often when we're not aware.

Who acts: Civil behaviour, due reward, we, behaviour · What happens: cost, gain, meet, not be, reward · To what, where: pains, reward

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Civil behaviour, due reward, we, behaviour), 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	_	4 costs	punct
2	Civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 behaviour	amod
3	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 costs	nsubj
4	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 costs	advmod
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 pains	det
7	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 costs	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Requires	punct
9	Requires	Requires	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pains	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 complaisance	case
11	complaisance	complaisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Requires	nmod
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 share	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 share	amod
14	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 costs	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 soon	punct
16	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 soon	cc
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 costs	advmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 late	cc
19	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soon	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 reward	nmod:poss
21	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reward	amod
22	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gains	nsubj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gains	nsubj
24	gains	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 soon	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 meets	punct
26	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 meets	cc
27	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 costs	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 meets	obj
29	often	often	ADV	_	27 meets	advmod
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 aware	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 aware	nsubj
32	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 aware	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 aware	advmod
34	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 meets	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 costs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Civil behaviour	some pains	indeed, soon property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme pain=Beneficiary share=Value
2	gain	present	behaviour's due reward			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	meet	present	Civil behaviour not said here	reward	often property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
4	not is	present	we		aware property	tree rules
5	reward		behaviour			nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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