--- title: Spite of thy charms, thou causest often pain And sore regret, of whi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Spite of thy charms, thou causest often pain And sore regret, of which we daily find A thousand instances attend mankind: For thou--O may it not displease the fair-- A fleeting pleasure art, but lasting care. Who acts: thou, we, thousand instances, mankind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, we, thousand instances, mankind), 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:pg29021:8:61 # text = Spite of thy charms, thou causest often pain And sore regret, of which we daily find A thousand instances attend mankind: For thou--O may it not displease the fair-- A fleeting pleasure art, but lasting care. 1 Spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 charms charm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 7 causest cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 regret regret NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obl _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 daily daily ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 instances instance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 attend attend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 23 mankind mankind NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 For for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 O o INTJ UH _ 32 discourse _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 displease displease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 fleeting fleeting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 lasting lasting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | present | thou | Spite of thy charms | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient | | 2 | **find** | present | we | | | | | daily *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **attend** | present | a thousand instances | mankind | | | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mankind=Goal | | 4 | **not** **displease** | may | mankind | the fair | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fair=Experiencer | | 5 | **spite** | | | thy charms | | | | | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/62/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/)