The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 20

But that rare quality call'd grace, Exceeds, by far, a handsome face; Its lasting charms surpass the other, And this rich gift her kind godmother Bestow'd on Cinderilla fair, Whom she instructed with such care.

Who acts: lasting charms, rich gift, Cinderilla · What happens: surpass, bestow, instruct · To what, where: other, fair

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 (lasting charms, rich gift, Cinderilla), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 grace	cc
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 call	det
3	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quality	amod
4	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	compound
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grace	nmod:poss
6	'd	'd	PART	_	5 call	case
7	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Exceeds	punct
9	Exceeds	exceeds	INTJ	_	7 grace	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 face	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 far	case
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 face	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 face	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 face	det
15	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 face	amod
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Exceeds	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 surpass	punct
18	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 charms	nmod:poss
19	lasting	lasting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 charms	amod
20	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 surpass	nsubj
21	surpass	surpass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grace	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 surpass	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Bestow	punct
25	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 Bestow	cc
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 gift	det
27	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gift	amod
28	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Bestow	nsubj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 godmother	nmod:poss
30	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 godmother	amod
31	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Bestow	nsubj
32	Bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 surpass	conj
33	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 Bestow	ccomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 fair	case
35	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 fair	nsubj
36	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Bestow	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 instructed	punct
38	Whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 instructed	obj
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 instructed	nsubj
40	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Bestow	advcl
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 care	case
42	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 care	amod
43	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 instructed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grace	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	surpass	present	face's lasting charms	the other			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot other=Theme
2	bestow	infinitive	this rich gift		fair		tree rules
3	instruct speech: other	past	Cinderilla			with such care	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient

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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