The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 22
For thus (may ever truth prevail) We draw our moral from this tale.
Who acts: We · What happens: prevail, draw · To what, where: truth, moral, tale
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 (We), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 prevail | mark |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 prevail | advmod |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 truth | punct |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 truth | aux |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 truth | advmod |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prevail | obl |
| 7 | prevail | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 draw | advcl |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 prevail | punct |
| 9 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 draw | nsubj |
| 10 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 moral | nmod:poss |
| 12 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 draw | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 tale | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 tale | det |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 draw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | present | We not said here | truth | thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | present | We | our moral | this tale | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent moral=Theme from tale=Initial_Location |
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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