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title: _Ah! so it is that miserable man, By nature fickle, blind, unwise, a… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: _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. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependen
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 29

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\_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.

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

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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.

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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:pg29021:15:29
# text = _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.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	By	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	fickle	fickle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	unwise	unwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	fails	fail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	reap	reap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	Bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	heav'nly	heav'nly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	gods	god	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 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 |

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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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