The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 21
She gave to her such graceful mien, That she, thereby, became a queen.
Who acts: gift · What happens: give, become · To what, where: such graceful mien, queen
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 (gift), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mien | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mien | nmod:poss |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mien | amod |
| 6 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mien | amod |
| 7 | mien | mien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 she | punct |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 she | nsubj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mien | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 she | punct |
| 12 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 2 gave | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | gift | gift's such graceful mien | thereby property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mien=Recipient | |||
| 2 | become | past | gift not said here | a queen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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