The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 23
This quality, fair ladies, know Prevails much more (you'll find it so) T'ingage and captivate a heart, Than a fine head dress'd up with art.
Who acts: quality, you · What happens: know, find, captivate, ' up · To what, where: Prevails, Moral, heart, fine head dress
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 (quality, you), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 quality | det |
| 2 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ladies | punct |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ladies | amod |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 quality | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 quality | punct |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Prevails | Prevail | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 Prevails | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 find | advmod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 18 | T'ingage | T'ingage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 captivate | cc |
| 20 | captivate | captivate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 find | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 heart | det |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 captivate | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dress | punct |
| 24 | Than | than | ADP | _ | 28 dress | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dress | det |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dress | amod |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dress | compound |
| 28 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 captivate | conj |
| 29 | 'd | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 dress | acl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 'd | compound:prt |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 art | case |
| 32 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 'd | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | this quality and fair ladies | Prevails | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer prevail=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | Moral | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme t'ingage=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | captivate | infinitive | you not said here | a heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | ' up | participle | a fine head dress not said here | with art | tree rules |
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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