The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 78

All the ladies were busied in considering her clothes and head-dress, that they might have some made next day after the same pattern, provided they could meet with such fine materials, and as able hands to make them.

Who acts: ladies, able hands · What happens: busy, consider, have, make, provide, meet · To what, where: ladies, clothes

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 (ladies, able hands), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ladies	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladies	det
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 busied	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busied	aux:pass
5	busied	busy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 considering	mark
7	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 busied	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 clothes	nmod:poss
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 considering	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dress	cc
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dress	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 head	punct
13	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clothes	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 busied	parataxis
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 day	det
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 day	amod
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
23	after	after	ADP	_	26 pattern	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pattern	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pattern	amod
26	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 day	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 provided	punct
28	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busied	parataxis
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 meet	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 meet	aux
31	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 provided	ccomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 materials	case
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 materials	amod
34	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 materials	amod
35	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 meet	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 make	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 make	cc
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 make	mark
39	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hands	amod
40	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 make	nsubj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 make	mark
42	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 busied	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 make	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 busied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	busy	past · passive		all ladies			tree rules
2	consider	gerund		silence's clothes and head dress			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent clothes=Attribute
3	have	might	ladies = lady		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	make	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	provide	past					vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme
6	meet	could	ladies = lady			with such fine materials	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with material=Co-Agent
7	make	to-infinitive	able hands	ladies = lady			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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