The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 71

She promised her godmother, she would not fail of leaving the ball before midnight; and then away she drove, scarce able to contain herself for joy.

Who acts: tale · What happens: promise, not fail, leave, drive, contain · To what, where: godmother, ball, tale

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 (tale), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 godmother	nmod:poss
4	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fail	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fail	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fail	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 fail	advmod
9	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	conj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 leaving	mark
11	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fail	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaving	obj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 midnight	case
15	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaving	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 drove	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 away	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 away	advmod
19	away	away	ADV	_	21 drove	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 drove	nsubj
21	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 able	punct
23	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 able	amod
24	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 drove	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 contain	mark
26	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 able	xcomp
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 contain	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 joy	case
29	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 contain	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	tale	tale's godmother			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent godmother=Theme
2	not fail	would	tale				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	gerund	tale not said here	the ball	midnight		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
4	drive	past	tale			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	contain	to-infinitive	tale not said here	tale		for joy	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=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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