The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 86

"If thou hadst been at the ball," said one of her sisters, "thou wouldst not have been tired with it; there came thither the finest Princess, the most beautiful ever was seen with mortal eyes; she shewed us a thousand civilities, and gave us oranges and citrons."

Who acts: thou, collation · What happens: be, say, not be, come, see, shew · To what, where: ball, one, finest Princess, us, oranges · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thou, collation), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 ball	mark
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 ball	nsubj
4	hadst	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ball	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 ball	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 ball	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ball	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ball	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 said	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sisters	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sisters	nmod:poss
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 tired	nsubj
19	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 tired	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 tired	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 tired	cop
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tired	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 came	expl
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
29	thither	thither	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Princess	det
31	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 Princess	amod
32	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 beautiful	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 beautiful	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 beautiful	advmod
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Princess	acl:relcl
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 seen	advmod
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux:pass
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 beautiful	advcl
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 eyes	case
41	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 eyes	amod
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 seen	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 shewed	punct
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 shewed	nsubj
45	shewed	shew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
46	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 shewed	obj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 civilities	det
48	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 civilities	nummod
49	civilities	civility	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 shewed	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 gave	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 gave	cc
52	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 shewed	conj
53	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 gave	iobj
54	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 gave	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 citrons	cc
56	citrons	citron	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 oranges	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	thou			the ball			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		one of collation's sisters					tree rules
3	not is in a quote	would · perfect	thou					with ball; tired property	tree rules
4	come in a quote	past		the finest Princess		there		thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see in a quote	past · passive					ever	with mortal eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
6	shew in a quote	past	collation	us					tree rules
7	give in a quote	past	collation not said here	oranges and citrons	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient orange=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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