The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 37

Tis nature's way that ladies fair Should yearn conjugal joys to share; And so I've not the heart to preach A moral that's beyond their reach.

Who acts: Tis way, I, moral · What happens: fair, yearn, share, not heart, preach, be · To what, where: conjugal joys, moral

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 (Tis way, I, moral), 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	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 way	compound
2	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 nature	case
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yearn	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fair	nsubj
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fair	nsubj
7	fair	fair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 way	acl:relcl
8	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 yearn	aux
9	yearn	yearn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	conjugal	conjugal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 joys	amod
11	joys	joy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 yearn	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 share	mark
13	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 joys	acl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 heart	punct
15	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 heart	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 heart	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 heart	nsubj
18	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 heart	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 heart	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 heart	det
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yearn	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 preach	mark
23	preach	preach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 heart	acl
24	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 moral	det
25	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 preach	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 reach	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 reach	cop
28	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	30 reach	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 reach	nmod:poss
30	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moral	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 yearn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fair	present	nature's Tis way			tree rules
2	yearn	should	nature's Tis way	conjugal joys		tree rules
3	share	to-infinitive	nature's Tis way not said here	conjugal joys not said here		tree rules
4	not heart	present	I			tree rules
5	preach speech: other	to-infinitive	nature's Tis way not said here	a moral		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moral=Topic
6	is	present	a moral		beyond ladies's reach	tree rules

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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