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title: Such is the wretched world's curs'd way; and yet Sometimes this urch… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 168

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg29021:14:168
# text = 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.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	curs	cur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'd	'd	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	urchin	urchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
17	despis	despi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'd	'd	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	unforeseen	unforeseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
26	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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