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title: Indeed, it was his lot to toil for little guerdon, and although he w… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, it was his lot to toil for little guerdon, and although he was young and happily married there were moments when he wished himself dead and below ground. Who acts: woodcutter, fortune, moments. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its de
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 174

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Indeed, it was his lot to toil for little guerdon, and although he was young and happily married there were moments when he wished himself dead and below ground.

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**Who acts:** woodcutter, fortune, moments · **What happens:** be, marry, wish · **To what, where:** fortune

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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 (woodcutter, fortune, moments), 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:pg29021:14:174
# text = Indeed, it was his lot to toil for little guerdon, and although he was young and happily married there were moments when he wished himself dead and below ground.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	toil	toil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	guerdon	guerdon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	below	below	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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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** | past | woodcutter |  |  |  |  | for little guerdon; indeed, toil *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | fortune |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | past |  |  |  |  |  | happily *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **be** | past | moments |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wish** | past | fortune | fortune |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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