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title: Is it reasonable that persons of wit and sense should be in a worse… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it reasonable that persons of wit and sense should be in a worse condition than those who have none? Who acts: persons. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 31

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Is it reasonable that persons of wit and sense should be in a worse condition than those who have none?

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**Who acts:** persons · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** worse condition, none

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (persons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:13:31
# text = Is it reasonable that persons of wit and sense should be in a worse condition than those who have none?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
5	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | reasonable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | should | persons of wit and sense |  |  | a worse condition |  | than those | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | none |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |

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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.

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**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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