The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 20
It was now that the poor clerk of the kitchen despaired of being able to deceive her.
What happens: be, deceive · To what, where: Sauce, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 despaired | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 despaired | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 despaired | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 despaired | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clerk | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clerk | amod |
| 7 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 despaired | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kitchen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kitchen | det |
| 10 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clerk | nmod |
| 11 | despaired | despair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 able | case |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 able | cop |
| 14 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 despaired | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 deceive | mark |
| 16 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 deceive | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 despaired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | Sauce | now | despair property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deceive | to-infinitive | Queen | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.
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