The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 8
_How advantageous it may be, By long descent of pedigree, T'enjoy a great estate, Yet knowledge how to act, we see, Join'd with consummate industry, (Nor wonder ye thereat) Doth often prove a greater boon, As should be to young people known.
Who acts: Moral, we, ye · What happens: be, t'enjoy, act, see, do, prove · To what, where: great estate, advantageous, Nor wonder, greater boon, young people
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 (Moral, we, ye), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 advantageous | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 advantageous | advmod |
| 3 | advantageous | advantageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 see | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 descent | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 descent | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 descent | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 descent | punct |
| 8 | By | by | ADP | _ | 10 descent | case |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 descent | amod |
| 10 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advantageous | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pedigree | case |
| 12 | pedigree | pedigree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 descent | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 T'enjoy | punct |
| 14 | T'enjoy | t'enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 descent | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 estate | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 estate | amod |
| 17 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 T'enjoy | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knowledge | punct |
| 19 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 knowledge | cc |
| 20 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advantageous | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 act | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 act | mark |
| 23 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 knowledge | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 28 | Join | Join | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 industry | nsubj |
| 29 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 industry | aux |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 industry | case |
| 31 | consummate | consummate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 industry | amod |
| 32 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wonder | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 wonder | punct |
| 35 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 wonder | compound |
| 36 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 industry | appos |
| 37 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 Doth | nsubj |
| 38 | thereat | thereat | ADV | _ | 40 Doth | advmod |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 thereat | punct |
| 40 | Doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 wonder | acl:relcl |
| 41 | often | often | ADV | _ | 42 prove | advmod |
| 42 | prove | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 Doth | advcl |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 boon | det |
| 44 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 45 boon | amod |
| 45 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 prove | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 people | punct |
| 47 | As | as | ADP | _ | 52 people | case |
| 48 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 people | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 people | cop |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 people | case |
| 51 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 people | amod |
| 52 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 industry | appos |
| 53 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 people | acl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | Moral | by long descent; of pedigree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | t'enjoy | infinitive | Moral not said here | a great estate | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | act | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | present | we | advantageous yet knowledge | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | do | present | ye | Nor wonder not said here | thereat property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | prove | present | ye not said here | a greater boon | often property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boon=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | should | as young people | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | know | participle | young people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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