--- title: Since the vicissitudes of life wait on Kings as much as on their sub… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Since the vicissitudes of life wait on Kings as much as on their subjects, and good is always mingled with ill, it so befell that the Queen was suddenly attacked by a fatal illness, and, in spite of science, and the skill of the doctors, no remedy could be found. Who acts: vicissitudes, litter, fata --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/) / 41 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 41 Since the vicissitudes of life wait on Kings as much as on their subjects, and good is always mingled with ill, it so befell that the Queen was suddenly attacked by a fatal illness, and, in spite of science, and the skill of the doctors, no remedy could be found. **Who acts:** vicissitudes, litter, fatal illness · **What happens:** wait, mingle, befall, attack, find, spite · **To what, where:** good, Queen, spite, science 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 (vicissitudes, litter, fatal illness), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:15:41 # text = Since the vicissitudes of life wait on Kings as much as on their subjects, and good is always mingled with ill, it so befell that the Queen was suddenly attacked by a fatal illness, and, in spite of science, and the skill of the doctors, no remedy could be found. 1 Since since SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 vicissitudes vicissitude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Kings King PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 20 advmod _ _ 20 mingled mingle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 befell befall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 31 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 fatal fatal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 52 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 53 det _ _ 53 remedy remedy NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj:pass _ _ 54 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 55 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 56 aux:pass _ _ 56 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present | the vicissitudes of life | | | | | on Kings | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on king=Location | | 2 | **mingle** | present · passive | | good | | | | with ill; always *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ill=Co-Patient | | 3 | **befall** | past | litter | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **attack** | past · passive | a fatal illness | the Queen | | | | suddenly *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 5 | **find** | could · passive | | spite of science and the skill of the doctors | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 6 | **spite** | | | science | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/42/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)