The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 19
_Beauty's to the sex a treasure, Still admir'd beyond all measure, And never yet was any known, By still admiring, weary grown.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: know, admire, grow, measure
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty), 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 | _ | 15 measure | punct |
| 2 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 measure | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Beauty | case |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sex | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sex | det |
| 6 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 measure | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 treasure | det |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 measure | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 admir | punct |
| 10 | Still | still | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 admir | amod |
| 11 | admir | admir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treasure | conj |
| 12 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 measure | aux |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 15 measure | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 measure | det |
| 15 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 yet | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 yet | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 yet | advmod |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 measure | advmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 any | cop |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 yet | obl |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 any | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 admiring | punct |
| 24 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 26 admiring | mark |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 admiring | advmod |
| 26 | admiring | admire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 known | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 weary | punct |
| 28 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 admiring | parataxis |
| 29 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 weary | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 measure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | admire | gerund | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | measure | Beauty | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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