The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 35

Of humour sweet, with many years to stay, Is natural enough, 'tis true; To wait for him a hundred years, And all that while asleep, appears A thing entirely new.

Who acts: many years · What happens: stay, be, wait, appear · To what, where: thing

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: who acts (many years), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 sweet	case
2	humour	humour	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sweet	nmod:poss
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stay	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stay	punct
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	9 stay	mark
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stay	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 natural	punct
11	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 natural	cop
12	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stay	parataxis
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 natural	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct
16	tis	tis	ADP	_	17 true	case
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 natural	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wait	punct
19	To	to	PART	_	20 wait	mark
20	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 stay	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wait	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hundred	det
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wait	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 asleep	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 asleep	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 asleep	det:predet
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 asleep	nsubj
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 asleep	mark
31	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stay	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 appears	punct
33	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 asleep	conj
34	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 thing	det
35	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 appears	obj
36	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	37 new	advmod
37	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thing	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	to-infinitive	many years			of humour's sweet	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present				enough, natural property	tree rules
3	be						tree rules
4	wait	to-infinitive	many years not said here		year	for husband	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	appear	present	many years not said here	a thing			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme

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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