The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 28
But none of these rich graces from above, To your advancement in the world will prove If godmothers and sires you disobey, Or 'gainst their strict advice too long you stay.
Who acts: none, godmothers, you, your · What happens: prove, disobey, gainst, stay, advance · To what, where: strict advice, world
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 (none, godmothers, you, your), 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 | _ | 17 prove | cc |
| 2 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 prove | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 graces | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 graces | det |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 graces | amod |
| 6 | graces | grace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 none | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 above | case |
| 8 | above | above | ADV | _ | 6 graces | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 advancement | punct |
| 10 | To | to | ADP | _ | 12 advancement | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 advancement | nmod:poss |
| 12 | advancement | advancement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 none | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 advancement | nmod |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 prove | aux |
| 17 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 disobey | mark |
| 19 | godmothers | godmother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 disobey | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sires | cc |
| 21 | sires | sire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 godmothers | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 disobey | nsubj |
| 23 | disobey | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 prove | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gainst | punct |
| 25 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 gainst | cc |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 gainst | punct |
| 27 | gainst | gainst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 prove | conj |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 advice | nmod:poss |
| 29 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 advice | amod |
| 30 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gainst | obj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 long | advmod |
| 32 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 gainst | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 stay | nsubj |
| 34 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 long | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | future | none | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | disobey a condition, not said to happen | present | godmothers and sires | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gainst | infinitive | none not said here | sires's strict advice | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stay | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | advance | your | the world | nom advancement «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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