The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 36

It is true, that this child no sooner began to prattle, but he said a thousand pretty things, and that in all his actions there was something so taking, that he charmed every-body.

Who acts: brat, child · What happens: be, begin, prattle, say, take, charm · To what, where: thousand pretty things, body · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brat, child), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 began	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sooner	nsubj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 sooner	det
9	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 began	advmod
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 prattle	mark
12	prattle	prattle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thousand	det
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 things	nummod
19	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 something	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 something	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 something	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 actions	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 actions	det:predet
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 actions	nmod:poss
27	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 that	nmod
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 actions	acl:relcl
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 true	conj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 taking	advmod
32	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 something	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 charmed	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 charmed	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 charmed	nsubj
36	charmed	charm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 taking	conj
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 body	det
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 every	punct
39	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 charmed	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	brat		true property	tree rules
2	begin	past	brat not said here		soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	prattle speech: other	to-infinitive	brat not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	child	thousand pretty things		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	take	gerund				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	charm	past	child	every body		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer
7	act		child			nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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