The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 33

A Fairy, who was at his birth, affirmed, he would be very lovable for all that, since he should be indowed with abundance of wit.

Who acts: Fairy · What happens: be, affirm, indow · To what, where: birth, son

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 (Fairy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lovable	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 birth	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 birth	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 birth	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 birth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birth	nmod:poss
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fairy	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 affirmed	punct
10	affirmed	affirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 birth	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fairy	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lovable	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 lovable	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 lovable	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 lovable	advmod
16	lovable	lovable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 lovable	conj
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 all	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 indowed	punct
21	since	since	SCONJ	_	25 indowed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 indowed	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 indowed	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 indowed	aux:pass
25	indowed	indow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lovable	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 abundance	case
27	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 indowed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 wit	case
29	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 abundance	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lovable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a Fairy and son's birth		son's birth		tree rules
2	affirm	participle		son's birth not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	would	a Fairy and son's birth			lovable property	tree rules
4	indow	should · passive		son		with abundance of wit	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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