The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 35
All this somewhat comforted the poor Queen, who was under a grievous affliction for having brought into the world such an ugly brat.
Who acts: this, poor Queen, grievous affliction, ugly brat · What happens: comfort, be, have, bring · To what, where: poor Queen, grievous affliction, ugly brat, 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 (this, poor Queen, grievous affliction, ugly brat), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 comforted | nsubj |
| 3 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 4 comforted | advmod |
| 4 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Queen | amod |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comforted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 affliction | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 affliction | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 affliction | cop |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 affliction | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 affliction | det |
| 13 | grievous | grievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 affliction | amod |
| 14 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Queen | appos |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 having | mark |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 affliction | acl |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 having | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 brat | det:predet |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 brat | det |
| 23 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 brat | amod |
| 24 | brat | brat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 having | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | this | the poor Queen | somewhat property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | the poor Queen | a grievous affliction | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | a grievous affliction not said here | such ugly brat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | participle | such ugly brat not said here | the world | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into world=Destination |
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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