The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 40

Any one but Cinderilla would have dressed their heads awry, but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well.

Who acts: head · What happens: dress, be · To what, where: one, Cinderilla

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dressed	nsubj:pass
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 Cinderilla	cc
4	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 one	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dressed	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 dressed	aux
7	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 awry	nsubj
10	awry	awry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dressed	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 good	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 good	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dressed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dressed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dressed	cc
19	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dressed	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dressed	obj
21	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	22 well	advmod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 dressed	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dress	would · perfect · passive		any one but Cinderilla		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	head		good property	tree rules
3	dress	past		Cinderilla	well property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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